Monounsaturated fatty acids, olive oil and blood pressure: epidemiological, clinical and experimental evidence

Public Health Nutrition

Valentina Ruiz-Gutierrez¹  Álvaro Alonso¹  Miguel Ángel Martínez-González¹ 

关键词: Monounsaturated fatty acids;    Olive oil;    Hypertension;    Mediterranean diet;   

DOI  :  10.1079/PHN2005836

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

Diet has an important role in the prevention and treatment of hypertension. In early epidemiological studies, conducted mainly in the USA, monounsaturated fatty acids showed a deleterious association with blood pressure or no relationship at all. However, more recent studies, conducted in Mediterranean countries, have shed new light on this issue. In the present review we summarise the main results of epidemiological studies and feeding trials, and explain the possible mechanisms through which monounsaturated fatty acids, and specifically olive oil as the major dietary source of this type of fat in Mediterranean countries, could exert a favourable effect on blood pressure.

【 授权许可】

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