Taking a daily garlic supplement for a year doesn’t seem to shrink the overall gunk in the heart arteries of people with type 2 diabetes—but it might specifically reduce the soft, dangerous kind of...

From: Aged garlic extract reduces low attenuation plaque in coronary arteries of patients with diabetes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

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Taking a daily garlic supplement for a year doesn’t seem to shrink the overall gunk in the heart arteries of people with type 2 diabetes—but it might specifically reduce the soft, dangerous kind of...

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In adults with type 2 diabetes, daily supplementation with 2,400 mg of aged garlic extract for one year has no statistically significant effect on total plaque volume, fibrous plaque volume, or fibro-fatty plaque volume in coronary arteries, but may specifically reduce low-attenuation plaque volume.

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Study: Aged garlic extract reduces low attenuation plaque in coronary arteries of patients with diabetes: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study

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