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Chocolate for Blood Pressure Too Hard to Stomach, Researchers Say “Egan is keen to stress, however, that it is far too soon to be recommending dark chocolate as a treatment for high blood pressure. "Clearly more research is needed; we don't think the state of the art is there yet. The number of studies is relatively small, few people have been studied, and the number of products that have been investigated is also too small to be making general health recommendations for the world." Ried and her colleagues have also recently published a meta-analysis of 15 trials looking at this subject [4], and she says they too concluded that the studies "are too diverse to give confident answers on optimal dosage or duration of treatment." Their main finding, she says, "was that chocolate may help people with high blood pressure but not with normal blood pressure"--they found BP reductions of around 5 mm Hg systolic, which, "albeit modest, is comparable to the effects of 30 daily minutes of moderate exercise," she says.”

Chocolate Linked to Lower Stroke and Stroke Mortality Risk

Cocoa Compounds Boost Blood Flow to Muscles

Cocoa Flavanols Improve Vascular and Blood Pressure Measures for Coronary Artery Disease Patients “A new study by UCSF cardiologists and researchers found that high concentrations of cocoa flavanols decrease blood pressure, improve the health of blood vessels and increase the number of circulating blood-vessel-forming cells in patients with heart disease. The findings indicate that foods rich in flavanols -- such as cocoa products, tea, wine, and various fruits and vegetables -- have a cardio-protective benefit for heart disease patients.”

Study: A Small Dose of Chocolate Could Cut Heart Attack or Stroke Risk by Almost 40 Per cent “They found people who had an average of six grams of chocolate per day -- or about one square of a chocolate bar -- had a 39 per cent lower risk of either a heart attack or stroke. The study is scheduled to be published Wednesday in the European Heart Journal. … "It's a bit too early to come up with recommendations that people should eat more chocolate, but if people replace sugar or high-fat snacks with a little piece of dark chocolate, that might help," said Brian Buijsse, a nutritional epidemiologist at the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Nuthetal, Germany, the study's lead author.”

Largest Study to Date Links Chocolate to Lower BP and CV Risk

Why Chocolate Protects Against Heart Disease

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Chocolate consumption is inversely associated with prevalent coronary heart disease: The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Family Heart Study. (Clin Nutr. 2010) “These data suggest that consumption of chocolate is inversely related with prevalent CHD in a general United States population.”

Chocolate Intake and Incidence of Heart Failure: A Population-Based, Prospective Study of Middle-Aged and Elderly Women (Circulation: Heart Failure 2010)

Does chocolate reduce blood pressure? A meta-analysis (BMC Medicine 2010)

Impact of cocoa flavanol consumption on blood pressure responsiveness to exercise. (Br J Nutr. 2010)

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