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Hot Cocoa Lowers Blood Pressure: The story on "Sham vs. Wham: The Health Insider"

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djensen36@cox.net - 23 May 2007 20:15 GMT
A new meta-analysis of ten large clinical trials has been done by a
group in Cologne, Germany, and reported on at http://shamvswham.blogspot.com/.
Today's story about the comparison between Hot Cocoa consumption vs.
tea is an interesting one, as it was discovered that Hot Cocoa has as
much benefit as some blood pressure medications. Read more in the
daily health and wellness compendium, "Sham vs. Wham: The Health
Insider."

D.
dorsy1943 - 24 May 2007 12:07 GMT
On May 23, 3:15 pm, djense...@cox.net wrote:
> A new meta-analysis of ten large clinical trials has been done by a
> group in Cologne, Germany, and reported on athttp://shamvswham.blogspot.com/.
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>
> D.

Am I missing something?  How can cocoa which drops the blood pressure
only 4.7 points be as much benefit as a med which drops the blood
pressure 5 or 10 times more?

Dolores
djensen36@cox.net - 24 May 2007 16:39 GMT
Hi Dolores:

If blood pressure dropped ten times more than 4.7 times, it could be
dangerously low, right? Perhaps you mean 5 to 10 points more.

Here's the way that the authors worded it in the meta-analysis:

"The effects are comparable to those achieved with blood-pressure
lowering medications. At the population level, a reduction of 4 to 5
millimeters of mercury in systolic blood pressure and 2-3 millimeters
of mercury in diastolic blood pressure would be expected to
substantially reduce the risk of stroke (by about 20 percent) and all-
cause mortality by 8 percent."

D.

> On May 23, 3:15 pm, djense...@cox.net wrote:
> > A new meta-analysis of ten large clinical trials has been done by a
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> Dolores
 
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