Cocoa flavanol intake improves endothelial function and Framingham Risk Score in healthy men and women: A randomised, controlled, double-masked trial: the Flaviola Health Study

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1246-1255

  Sansone, Roberto ^a   Rodriguez Mateos, Ana ^a   Heuel, Jan ^a   Falk, David ^a   Schuler, Dominik ^a   Wagstaff, Rabea ^a   Kuhnle, Gunter G C ^b   Spencer, Jeremy P E ^b   Schroeter, Hagen ^c   Merx, Marc W ^a   Kelm, Malte ^a   Heiss, Christian ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiovascular health; Flavanols; Flow mediated dilation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL; FLAVANOL DERIVATIVE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; FLAVONOL DERIVATIVE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; ENDOTHELIAL FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPEN STUDY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION; PULSE WAVE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VASODILATATION; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHEMISTRY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ADULT; BIOMARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CACAO; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FLAVONOLS; HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASODILATION;

EID: 84944104588     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114515002822     Document Type: Article

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