Cocoa consumption for 2 wk enhances insulin-mediated vasodilatation without improving blood pressure or insulin resistance in essential hypertension

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1685-1696

  Muniyappa, Ranganath ^a   Hall, Gail ^a   Kolodziej, Terrie L ^a   Karne, Rajaram J ^a   Crandon, Sonja K ^a   Quon, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOCYTOKINE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CACAO; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; BEVERAGES; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CACAO; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FLAVONOLS; GLUCOSE CLAMP TECHNIQUE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INSULIN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 57449120731     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2008.26457     Document Type: Article

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