Pumpkin and Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

• Improvement in HDL cholesterol in postmenopausal women supplemented with pumpkin seed oil: pilot study.

  • 2011-05-05
  • RCT · n = 35
  • Climacteric : the journal of the International Menopause Society 14(5)
  • • M Gossell-Williams
    • C Hyde
    • T Hunter
    • D Simms-Stewart
    • H Fletcher
    • D McGrowder
    • C A Walters

  • PubMed: 21545273
  • DOI: 10.3109/13697137.2011.563882

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  • Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Adults

  decrease in diastolic blood pressure (81.1 ± 7.94 mmHg vs. 75.67 ± 11.93 mmHg; p < 0.046)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2 g per day

• The effects of pumpkin seed oil supplementation on arterial hemodynamics, stiffness and cardiac autonomic function in postmenopausal women.

  • 2019-11
  • RCT · n = 12
  • Complementary therapies in clinical practice 37
  • • Alexei Wong
    • Danielle Viola
    • Douglas Bergen
    • Eileen Caulfield
    • Javad Mehrabani
    • Arturo Figueroa

  • PubMed: 31445363
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2019.08.003

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  • Reduced Diastolic Blood Pressure

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  AIx, brachial and central systolic BP significantly (P < 0.05) decreased following PSO but not after placebo.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  3 g/day