COMPOSITION CONTAINING CINNAMIC ACID DERIVATIVES FOR PREVENTING OR TREATING ELEVATED BLOOD LIPID LEVEL-RELATED DISEASES

摘要

A pharmaceutical composition for treating or preventing an elevated blood lipid level-related disease such as hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, stroke and hepatic disease in a mammal, which comprises an effective amount of a cinnamic acid derivative of formula (Ia) or (Ib), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as an active ingredient together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a functional food or beverage composition for such a disease, which comprises an effective amount of the cinnamic acid derivative of formula (Ia) or (Ib) wherein R<1>, R<2>, R<3>, R<4> and R<5> are independently H, OH or C1-4 alkoxy; and R<6> is H, C1-4 alkyl group, or C5-7 cycloalkyl group having one or more substituents selected from the group consisting of OH, alkoxy and carboxy groups.