Pycnogenol, French maritime pine bark extract, improves endothelial function of hypertensive patients.
- 2004-01
- RCT · n = 58
- Life sciences 74(7)
- Ximing Liu
- Junping Wei
- Fengsen Tan
- Shengming Zhou
- Gudrun Würthwein
- Peter Rohdewald
- PubMed: 14659974
- DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2003.07.037
- High evidence
- Clinical
Supplementation of the patients with 100 mg Pycnogenol over a period of 12 weeks helped to reduce the dose of the calcium antagonist nifedipine in a statistically significant manner.
- Effect
- Beneficial
- Effect size
- Small
- Significant
- Yes
- Dose
- 100 mg/day