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Heart-Healthy Oats Have
Anti-Inflammatory Properties
To Protect Arteries
Cooling Inflammation from oat compounds, known
as avenanthramides and phenolic antioxidants are
recognized as valuable for helping support arteries
and cardiovascular health.
Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists have
reported new reasons for choosing “heart-healthy” oats at the
grocery store.
Nutritionists of the Vascular Biology Laboratory at the Jean Mayer
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts
University in Boston, Mass., led the research on the oat compounds,
called avenanthramides. The researcher team previously has shown
that phenolic antioxidants in oats obstruct the ability of blood cells to
stick to artery walls.
Chronic inflammation inside the arterial wall is part of the process
that eventually leads to a disorder known as atherosclerosis. The
colleagues have reported findings that suggest the avenanthramides
of oats decrease the expression of inflammatory molecules. The
study showed that forms of avenanthramides possess potential
anti-inflammatory properties through inhibiting factors that are
linked with activating proinflammatory cytokines.
Cytokines are small proteins released by cells while seeking to
protect and repair tissue. Some trigger inflammation, for example,
while responding to infection. Inhibiting inflammation through diet,
drugs, or key nutrients is considered to be of great benefit in
preventing atherosclerosis.
Details of this study can be found in the scientific journal
Free Radical Biology & Medicine. The study provides additional
indications of the potential health benefit of oat consumption in
the prevention of coronary heart disease beyond its known effect
through lowering blood cholesterol.
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