Effect of a traditional Japanese garlic preparation on blood pressure in prehypertensive and mildly hypertensive adults

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 399-405

  Nakasone, Yasushi ^a   Nakamura, Yosuke ^b   Yamamoto, Tetsuro ^c   Yamaguchi, Hideyo ^c  

^a Kenkoukazoku Inc   (Japan)

^b Medical Corporation Keiaikai Nakamura Hospital   (Japan)

^c TOTAL   (France)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Garlic; Mild hypertension; Prehypertension; Traditional Japanese garlic homogenate based supplementary diet

Indexed keywords

GARLIC EXTRACT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREHYPERTENSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84871350897     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm.2012.819     Document Type: Article

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