https://www.mdlinx.com/family-medicine/medical-news-article/2016/12/02/postmenopausal-women/6944153/?
Clinical Interventions in Aging, 12/02/2016
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this study, researchers examine the impacts of cocoa consumption
frequency on arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women. In spite of the
fact that this study did not include a sedentary control group, these
outcomes recommend that regardless of frequency, habitual cocoa
consumption decreases central and peripheral arterial stiffness in
postmenopausal women.
- 64±12 years was the mean age ± standard deviation of the participant.
- A sum of 26 postmenopausal women were haphazardly assigned to two groups with different cocoa–intake frequencies: one group ingested 17 g of cocoa once daily except on Sundays (every–day group, n=13), and the other ingested 17 g of cocoa twice daily every other day (every–other–day group, n=13).
- These consumption regimens were kept up in both groups for 12 weeks.
- Carotid–femoral pulse–wave velocity and femoral–ankle pulse–wave velocity were measured in both groups at baseline and again at the end of the 12–week study period.
- Contrasted with baseline, both pulse–wave velocities had altogether diminished after the 12–week study period in both groups (P<0.05).
- However, no significant difference in degree of change was observed between the two groups.
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