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| Small muscular arteries may be encountered as the raphe is approached. And research published in the June 2005 issue of the American Journal of Hypertension demonstrates for the first time that dark chocolate has an acute and potent dilating effect on muscular arteries and reduces so-called wave reflections, providing a mechanism for how chocolate may protect the cardiovascular system. Elastic arteries, such as the pulmonary artery, have a ratio of collagen to smooth muscle cells that is larger than that observed in muscular arteries. |
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