Trial reportEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2005
Effect of red wine and red grape extract on blood lipids, haemostatic factors, and other risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
Trial report in European journal of clinical nutrition, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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47 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 154 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of wine consumption and lipid profile: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials.The journal of nutrition, health & aging · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of anthocyanin supplementation on blood lipid levels: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Anthocyanin Supplementation on Reduction of Obesity Criteria: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Nutrients · 2021Pooled it
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- Effect of alcohol on blood pressure.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Foods and Derived Products Containing Ellagitannins and Anthocyanins on Cardiometabolic Biomarkers: Analysis of Factors Influencing Variability of the Individual Responses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2018Pooled it
- Do grape polyphenols improve metabolic syndrome components? A systematic review.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Pooled it
- The effect of a reduction in alcohol consumption on blood pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The Lancet. Public health · 2017Pooled it
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- Effect of alcohol consumption on biological markers associated with risk of coronary heart disease: systematic review and meta-analysis of interventional studies.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2011Pooled it
- Urinary tartaric acid as a biomarker of wine consumption and cardiovascular risk: the PREDIMED trial.European heart journal · 2025Trial
- Anthocyanin supplementation at different doses improves cholesterol efflux capacity in subjects with dyslipidemia-a randomized controlled trial.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Trial
- Consumption of Aged White Wine under a Veil of Flor Reduces Blood Pressure-Increasing Plasma Nitric Oxide in Men at High Cardiovascular Risk.Nutrients · 2019Trial
- The effect of moderate alcohol consumption on biomarkers of inflammation and hemostatic factors in postmenopausal women.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2016Trial
- Consumption of a polyphenol-rich grape-wine extract lowers ambulatory blood pressure in mildly hypertensive subjects.Nutrients · 2015Trial
- Examining the French paradox: a systematic review of red wine consumption and cardiovascular risk.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2025Article
- Clinical, biochemical profile and atherosclerotic cardiovascular risk score (ASCVD) in patients with high HDL cholesterol.Irish journal of medical science · 2025Article
- 1,2-Dicinnamoyl-Nutrients · 2024Article
- Does Elevated High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Protect Against Cardiovascular Disease?The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2024Article
- Anthocyanin Effects on Vascular and Endothelial Health: Evidence from Clinical Trials and Role of Gut Microbiota Metabolites.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
objectiveSome epidemiological studies found a lower risk of cardiovascular disease among wine drinkers than among drinkers of other types of ethanol. This difference might be due to an effect of nonalcohol compounds in wine on important cardiovascular risk factors. The objective of this study was to compare the effect of red wine, nonalcohol compounds of red wine and placebo on established cardiovascular risk factors.
designA parallel, four-armed intervention study. SUBJECTS: A total of 69 healthy 38-74-y-old men and women.
interventionsSubjects were randomised to either 1: red wine (males: 300 ml/day, 38.3 g alcohol/day, female subjects: 200 ml/day, 25.5 g alcohol/day), 2: water + red grape extract tablets (wine-equivalent dose), 3: water + red grape extract tablets (half dose), or 4: water + placebo tablets for a period of 4 weeks. No other sources of alcohol or anthocyanin were allowed. Plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol (HDL-C), low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol (LDL-C), HDL-C/LDL-C-ratio, very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL)-triacylglycerol, total cholesterol, fibrinogen, factor VII coagulant activity (FVIIc), blood pressure, and body weight were determined before and after intervention.
resultsWine consumption was associated with a significant 11-16% increase in fasting HDL-C and 8-15% decrease in fasting fibrinogen relative to not drinking wine. There were no significant treatment effects on fasting LDL-C, HDL-C/LDL-C-ratio, VLDL-triacylglycerol, total cholesterol, FVIIc, or blood pressure. Drinking wine was associated with relative body weight increments closely corresponding to the energy contributed by the alcohol component.
conclusionModerate red wine consumption for 4 weeks is associated with desirable changes in HDL-C and fibrinogen compared with drinking water with or without red grape extract. The impact of wine on the measured cardiovascular risk factors thus seems primarily explained by an alcohol effect. Our finding suggests that the putative difference in cardiac risk associated with wine vs other alcoholic beverages might be rather explained by other life-style confounders than by red wine contents of nonalcohol components.
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