Sprouts and Blood Pressure

Take a few moments to review the comprehensive catalog of research articles we’ve gathered on the interplay between sprouts and blood pressure.

“Dietary Approach to Attenuate Oxidative Stress, Hypertension, and Inflammation in the Cardiovascular System”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, PNAS, May 4, 2004, vol. 101, no. 18, 7094-7099, Medical Sciences, Lingyun Wu , M. Hossein Noyan Ashraf*, Marina Facci, Rui Wang, Phyllis G. Paterson , Alison Ferrie and Bernhard H. J. Juurlink.

“Dietary approaches to positively influence fetal determinants of adult health”FASEB J. 2005 Dec 14; Noyan-Ashraf MH, Wu L, Wang R, Juurlink BH.

“The Dietary Phase 2 Protein Inducer Sulforaphane Can Normalize the Kidney Epigenome and Improve Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Rats” Senanayake GV, Banigesh A, Wu L, Lee P, Juurlink BH. Am J Hypertens. 2011 Nov 3. doi: 10.1038/ajh.2011.200. 1] Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada [2] Present address: Department of Human Nutritional Sciences, Richardson Center for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (G.V.K.S.); College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (B.H.J.J.).