Chocolate consumption and cardiometabolic disorders: Systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7825, 2011, Pages

  Buitrago Lopez, Adriana ^a,b,c   Sanderson, Jean ^a   Johnson, Laura ^a   Warnakula, Samantha ^a   Wood, Angela ^a   Di Angelantonio, Emanuele ^a   Franco, Oscar H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL DE SAN JOSÉ   (Colombia)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD JAVERIANA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EATING; META ANALYSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EATING; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80053389356     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d4488     Document Type: Article

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