Rebecca B Costello, Cynthia V Lentino, Leila Saldanha, Marguerite M Engler, Mary B Engler, Pothur Srinivas, Christopher T Sempos
A quality assessment of the primary studies reported in the literature carried out using select dietary ingredients (DI) purported to affect vascular endothelial function was conducted through a systematic PubMed search from January 2000 to August 2012. A total of seventy randomised controlled trials with defined DI (folic acid (fifteen), n-3 fatty acids (twenty), cocoa (fifteen) and isoflavones (twenty)) and standardised measures of vascular endothelial function were evaluated. Jadad scores, quality scoring parameters for DI and flow-mediated dilation (FMD) methodology used were ascertained...
January 14, 2015: British Journal of Nutrition