RT Journal
A1 Hildreth CJ
T1 GRapes and heart failure
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD January 7
VO 301
IS 1
SP 26
OP 26
DO 10.1001/jama.2008.925
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2008.925
AB 
Two groups of rats were fed a high-salt diet, with or without grape powder (the equivalent of 9 servings of grapes daily). Two other groups were fed a low-salt diet, with or without grape powder. After 18 weeks, among rats on the high-salt diet, those given grape powder had lower blood pressure, better heart muscle function and structure, and lower markers of inflammation than those that did not receive the grape powder; those in the low-salt diet group that were given grape powder had a similar improvement in heart muscle structure and had molecular indicators of less cardiac stress.