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Regular Intake of a Usual Serving Size of Flavanol-Rich Cocoa Powder Does Not Affect Cardiometabolic Parameters in Stably Treated Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension—A Double-Blinded, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Regular cocoa consumption has been shown to improve blood pressure (BP), insulin sensitivity, and lipid levels in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D), using up to 100 g of chocolate or 54 g of cocoa. These effects, attributed to cocoa flavanols, would be beneficial for patients with T2D if they coul...

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Autores principales: Dicks, Lisa, Kirch, Natalie, Gronwald, Dorothea, Wernken, Kerstin, Zimmermann, Benno F., Helfrich, Hans-Peter, Ellinger, Sabine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6213512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30301127
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10101435