Coconut Water and Reduced Blood Pressure

• The control of hypertension by use of coconut water and mauby: two tropical food drinks.

  • 2005-01
  • Clinical Trial
  • The West Indian medical journal 54(1)
  • • T Alleyne
    • S Roache
    • C Thomas
    • A Shirley

  • PubMed: 15892382
  • DOI: 10.1590/s0043-31442005000100002

  3 Insights on

  • Reduced Blood Pressure

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  For the group receiving the mixture, the largest decreases in mean systolic and mean diastolic pressure were 24 mmHg and 15 mmHg respectively; these were approximately double the largest values seen with the single interventions.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes