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Super, red palm and palm oleins improve the blood pressure, heart size, aortic media thickness and lipid profile in spontaneously hypertensive rats

Boon CM 1 , Ng MH , Choo YM , Mok SL

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  • 1 Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PLoS One, 2013;8(2):e55908.
PMID: 23409085 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055908

Abstract

Oleic acid has been shown to lower high blood pressure and provide cardiovascular protection. Curiosity arises as to whether super olein (SO), red palm olein (RPO) and palm olein (PO), which have high oleic acid content, are able to prevent the development of hypertension.

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