Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02130141
The Effects of Dark Chocolate on Blood Pressure in Individuals With Mildly Elevated Blood Pressure
The Effects of Dark Chocolate on Blood Pressure in Mildly Hypertensive Individuals
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 30 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Helsinki · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 25 Years – 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
The evidence linking chocolate with lowered blood pressure has been observed. However, the interventions have been short, at most 4 weeks. The aim of this study is to find out if the habitual consumption of dark chocolate for 8 weeks has an effect on blood pressure. Also, more insight to the mechanisms linking chocolate to individual healt-responses is needed.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT | Dark chocolate | Mildly hypertensive subject will replace their usual snacks with with 50 g dark chocolate daily for a period of 8 weeks. |
| OTHER | Dietary counselling | Usual snacks are limited. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2012-11-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-01-01
- Completion
- 2014-01-01
- First posted
- 2014-05-05
- Last updated
- 2014-05-05
Locations
2 sites across 1 country: Finland
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02130141. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.