FIELD: medicine.
SUBSTANCE: there is offered application of alpha-ketoglutaric acid or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt for manufacturing of a pharmaceutical preparation or a food or fodder additive for stimulating production of high-density lipids (HDL) in vertebrate animals, including human, and the relevant method for stimulating production of HDLs with alpha-ketoglutaric acid (or its salt) and pharmaceutically acceptable physical mixtures of alpha-ketoglutaric acid or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt and at least one amino acid.
EFFECT: there is disclosed statistically significant increase of HDLs concentration with decrease in total cholesterol, LDLs and triglycerides.
18 tbl, 3 ex, 7 cl
