PapersPMID:28070018
Curcumin supplementation improves vascular endothelial function in healthy middle-aged and older adults by increasing nitric oxide bioavailability and reducing oxidative stress.
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- 02 · compound
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- 03 · endpoint
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curcuminEvery finding here is a null result.
What did not
1 findingHow to read these marks →curcumin — no detected effect on carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity
moderateFindingNull result
“There was no group by time interaction for aortic PWV (P=0.8), carotid artery compliance (P=0.2), or other arterial stiffness parameters (all P>0.2).”
Quoted verbatim from Curcumin supplementation improves vascular endothelial function in healthy middle-aged and older adults by increasing nitric oxide bioavailability and reducing oxidative stress. - Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 3 months
- Dose studied
- 2000 mg/day Longvida® curcumin (~400 mg curcumin), once daily for 12 weeks
- Population
- healthy middle-aged and older adults, 45-74 years
Study record
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- curcumin
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- healthy men and postmenopausal women aged 45-74 with age-related conduit artery endothelial dysfunction (screening brachial artery FMD <7%), Boulder County, Colorado
- Participants
- 39
- Comparator
- placebo
- Duration
- 84 days
- Endpoints measured
- 9
- Record
- extracted
- Readings recorded
- 2