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AGE Reduces Multiple Cardiovascular Risk Factors
AGE is a modulator of a wide range of cardiovascular risk factors, including the reduction of blood pressure, increased blood flow, prevention of platelet aggregation and stickiness, a lowering of total cholesterol and LDL, an elevation of the good cholesterol (HDL) and suppression of coronary heart atherosclerotic plaques that can lead to a heart attack. In addition, AGE was shown to reduce homocysteine, protect the function of endothelial cells that line blood vessels, increase the levels of nitric acid (NO), a regulator of blood pressure and an endothelial relaxing factor, and, by its powerful antioxidant action AGE inhibits oxidative damage to the endothelium that can be caused by many stress factors, including smoking.