Realistic intake of a flavanol-rich soluble cocoa product increases HDL-cholesterol without inducing anthropometric changes in healthy and moderately hypercholesterolemic subjects

Food and Function

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 364-374

  Martínez López, Sara ^a   Sarriá, Beatriz ^a   Sierra Cinos, José Luis ^b   Goya, Luis ^a   Mateos, Raquel ^a   Bravo, Laura ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FOOD SCIENCE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; FREE RADICAL SCAVENGING CAPACITY; FRUITS AND VEGETABLES; OXYGEN RADICAL ABSORBANCE CAPACITIES; SYSTOLIC AND DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTORS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY FLUIDS; FLAVONOIDS; NUTRITION;

COCOA;

FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE 1;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CACAO; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CACAO; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; FEMALE; FLAVONOLS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-6; INTERLEUKIN-8; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; VASCULAR CELL ADHESION MOLECULE-1; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893302441     PISSN: 20426496     EISSN: 2042650X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c3fo60352k     Document Type: Article

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