STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Cinnamon: a nutraceutical supplement for the cardiovascular system
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Faculty of Animal Science and Food Technology, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University, Khuzestan, Iran
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Jain Hospital, Kanpur, India
Submission date: 2023-10-30
Final revision date: 2024-02-01
Acceptance date: 2024-02-19
Publication date: 2024-04-11
Arch Med Sci Atheroscler Dis 2024;9(1):72-81
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ABSTRACT
Common therapies for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are associated with wide side effects. Thus, herbal medicines have been regarded due to fewer side effects, availability, cultural beliefs, and being cheap. For thousand years, herbal medicine has been used for bacterial infections, colds, coughs, and CVDs. Cinnamon bark contains phenolic compounds such as cinnamaldehyde and cinnamic acid with protective properties which can reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases, cardiac ischemia and hypertrophy, and myocardial infarction. Furthermore, cinnamon has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and exhibits beneficial effects on the complications of diabetes, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension which cause CVDs. Although the protective effects of cinnamon on the heart have been reported in many studies, it needs more clinical studies to prove the pharmaceutical and therapeutic efficacy of cinnamon on risk factors of CVDs.
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