Re: Cocoa Consumption Halved Risk of Death - in this study

March 9, 2006

Hi folks:

It looks like this is the study:

" Cocoa intake, blood pressure, and cardiovascular mortality: the

Zutphen Elderly Study.

Buijsse B, Feskens EJ, Kok FJ, Kromhout D.

Center for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health

and the Environment, Bilthoven, and Division of Human Nutrition,

Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.

brian.buijsse@...

BACKGROUND: Small, short-term, intervention studies indicate that

cocoa-containing foods improve endothelial function and reduce blood

pressure. We studied whether habitual cocoa intake was cross-

sectionally related to blood pressure and prospectively related with

cardiovascular mortality. METHODS: Data used were of 470 elderly men

participating in the Zutphen Elderly Study and free of chronic

diseases at baseline. Blood pressure was measured at baseline and 5

years later, and causes of death were ascertained during 15 years of

follow-up. Habitual food consumption was assessed by the cross-check

dietary history method in 1985, 1990, and 1995. Cocoa intake was

estimated from the consumption of cocoa-containing foods. RESULTS:

One third of the men did not use cocoa at baseline. The median cocoa

intake among users was 2.11 g/d. After adjustment, the mean systolic

blood pressure in the highest tertile of cocoa intake was 3.7 mm Hg

lower (95% confidence interval [CI], -7.1 to -0.3 mm Hg; P = .03 for

trend) and the mean diastolic blood pressure was 2.1 mm Hg lower (95%

CI, -4.0 to -0.2 mm Hg; P = .03 for trend) compared with the lowest

tertile. During follow-up, 314 men died, 152 of cardiovascular

diseases. Compared with the lowest tertile of cocoa intake, the

adjusted relative risk for men in the highest tertile was 0.50 (95%

CI, 0.32-0.78; P = .004 for trend) for cardiovascular mortality and

0.53 (95% CI, 0.39-0.72; P < .001) for all-cause mortality.

CONCLUSION: In a cohort of elderly men, cocoa intake is inversely

associated with blood pressure and 15-year cardiovascular and all-

cause mortality. "

PMID: 16505260

Aaaaaamazing!!

Rodney.

--- In , " Rodney " <perspect1111@...>

wrote:

>

> Hi folks:

>

> Just 4.2 g a day of it. And it presumably included all kinds of

fat

> and sugar with it. So imagine how good the de-fatted sugar-free

> cocoa must be!

>

http://heart.healthcentersonline.com/newsstories/cocoaconsumershavelow

> erdiseaseriskstudy.cfm?nl=1

>

> http://snipurl.com/nce3

>

> Rodney.

>

March 9, 2006