Olive and Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

• Efficacy of Olive Leaf Extract in Improving Blood Pressure in Pre-Hypertensive and Hypertensive Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-05-05
  • Review · n = 248
  • Phytotherapy research : PTR 39(6)
  • • Rebeca Lachovicz
    • Vera Ferro-Lebres
    • Juliana Almeida-de-Souza
    • José Alberto Pereira

  • PubMed: 40325976
  • DOI: 10.1002/ptr.8509

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  An antihypertensive effect was observed on systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the pre- vs. post-intervention in the global analysis (diastolic -2.38 mmHg, 95% CI: [-4.96, 0.20], I² = 50%, p = 0.07) and in the sub-analysis that included the studies with the highest dose (1000 mg/day) (diastolic -4.65 mmHg, 95% CI: [-6.56, -2.74], I² = 0%, p ≤ 0.001).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  varied (highest dose 1000 mg/day analysed in sub-analysis)