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. 2014 Jun 10;2014(6):CD001918. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001918.pub3

Ketomäki 2004a.

Methods Randomised, cross‐over trial.
Participants 5 adult participants with FH.
Interventions Sterol and stanol for 4 weeks for each treatment period. No washout period described.
Outcomes Total, HDL & LDL cholesterol, triglycerides.
Notes Only short‐term outcomes were assessed in small number of participants.
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Described as a randomised trial.
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Not mentioned.
Blinding (performance bias and detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Double‐blind.
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Included all participants.
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Low risk All the outcomes stated in methods were reported