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1. The effectiveness and cost effectiveness of dark chocolate consumption as prevention therapy in people at high risk of cardiovascular disease: best case scenario analysis using a Markov model.

Author

Zomer, Ella, Owen, Alice, Magliano, Dianna J., Liew, Danny, and Reid, Christopher M.

Subjects
*CARDIOVASCULAR disease prevention, *CACAO, *CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors, *RESEARCH funding, *DESCRIPTIVE statistics, *ECONOMICS, *THERAPEUTICS
Abstract

The article discusses a study to evaluate whether dark chocolate consumption represents an effective and cost effective means of preventing cardiovascular disease among patients with the metabolic syndrome (without diabetes). The study concluded that the blood pressure lowering and lipid effects of dark chocolate could represent an effective and cost effective strategy for the prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with the metabolic syndrome (and no diabetes).

Published
2012
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2. RESEARCH.

Subjects
*PREVENTIVE medicine, *CACAO, *HUMAN papillomavirus vaccines, *GAY men, *TIME, *VACCINES, *WORLD Wide Web, *INFORMATION resources, *BLOOD donors, *ECONOMICS, *STATUS (Law), *THERAPEUTICS, PAPILLOMAVIRUS disease prevention
Abstract

The article reports on research related to quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccination, blood donation by men having sex with men and cardiometabolic disorders. It states that quadrivalent vaccines for the prevention of cervical cancer are cost effective. It also informs about the study depicting the decrease in the risk of cardiometabolic disorders with the consumption of chocolate.

Published
2011

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