antiatherogenic
adjective
an·ti·ath·ero·gen·ic
-ˌath-ə-rō-ˈjen-ik
variants
or anti-atherogenic
: preventing or inhibiting atherogenesis
antiatherogenic effects
There also was no clear evidence that beta carotene inhibits the oxidation of low-density lipoproteins, the principal proposed mechanism of its postulated antiatherogenic properties.—E. Robert Greenberg and Michael B. Sporn, The New England Journal of Medicine
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