Cholesterol and blood pressure values at baseline and after 15 days of dark-chocolate and white-chocolate consumption Characteristic Dark chocolate before (n=10) Dark chocolate after (n=10) White chocolate before (n=10) White chocolate after (n=10) Total cholesterol (mmol/L) 5.4 5.0* LDL cholesterol (mmol/L) 3.4 3.0† 24-hour systolic blood pressure (ambulatory blood pressure monitoring) (mm Hg) 135.5 123.6‡ 135.6 134.7 24-hour diastolic blood-pressure (ambulatory blood-pressure monitoring)(mm Hg) 88.0 79.6‡ 87.6 87.5 *p=0.0003 dark-chocolate vs baseline and white-chocolate values †p<0.05 dark-chocolate vs baseline and white-chocolate values ‡p<0.0001 dark-chocolate vs baseline and white-chocolate value Grassi D et al. Hypertension 2005; available at http://hyper.ahajournals.org