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