Effects of cocoa powder and dark chocolate on LDL oxidative susceptibility and prostaglandin concentrations in humans
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...Freese et al (91) found no effect of green tea extract consumption on thromboxane production among female subjects, and chocolate phenolic compounds did not decrease in vivo prostaglandin production for either gender (109)....
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...The Friedewald formula was used to calculate LDL-cholesterol concentrations (16): [LDL cholesterol = total cholesterol (HDL cholesterol triacylglycerol/5)], which were then converted to mmol/L by dividing by 387....
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...Oxidative modification of LDL was shown to play a key role in the initiation of atherogenesis (5)....
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...Studies have shown that flavonoids prevent LDL oxidation in vitro by scavenging radical species or sequestering metal ions (6, 7)....
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...It was shown in vitro that flavonoids, especially catechins, recycle -tocopherol by donating a hydrogen atom to the -tocopherol radical (7)....
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