Favourable hypotensive effect after standardised tomato extract treatment in hypertensive subjects at high estimated cardiovascular risk - a randomised controlled trial.

CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study show that the addition of STE to standard antihypertensive therapy improves blood pressure control in hypertensive patients with high CV risk. This effect, together with the anti-aggregation effect, may indicate the pleiotropic effect of tomato extract. This fact justifies further research into functional foods and gives new insights into STE as a food supplement that could have new therapeutic and prophylactic uses for the treatment of hypertensive patients with high CV risk and especially with obesity. PMID: 29131285 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polish Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Authors: Tags: Kardiol Pol Source Type: research