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Freeze-dried bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) dietary supplement improves walking distance and lipids after myocardial infarction: an open-label randomized clinical trial.
What moved
1 findingHow to read these marks →- Increases six-minute walk test distance
very limited
“The mean 6-minute walk test distance increased significantly more in the bilberry group compared to the control group: mean difference 38 m at follow-up (95% confidence interval 14-62, P = .003).”
- Study
- RCT
- Duration
- 8 weeks
- Effect
- 38 mean difference, 95% CI 14 to 62
- Dose studied
- 40 g/day for 8 weeks
- Population
- patients after acute myocardial infarction treated with percutaneous coronary intervention; open-label; standard medical therapy in both arms; control received standard medical therapy alone
Study record
- Design
- randomised controlled trial
- Species
- human
- Population
- Patients after acute myocardial infarction, allocated within 24 hours of percutaneous coronary intervention
- Participants
- 50
- Comparator
- no treatment
- Duration
- 56 days
- Endpoints measured
- 6