Effect of dark chocolate on arterial function in healthy individuals: Cocoa instead of ambrosia?

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 205-211

  Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Alexopoulos, Nikolaos ^b   Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^b  

^a HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; FLAVONOL; ISOFLAVONE; NITRIC OXIDE; PROCYANIDIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ARTERY COMPLIANCE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOTHELIUM LESION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; PULSE WAVE; RED WINE; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; TEA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; WAVEFORM;

AMBROSIA; ARTERIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; NITRIC OXIDE; RISK FACTORS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 33744961359     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-006-0052-5     Document Type: Review

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