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Already recognized from the government for their ability to lower cholesterol of the same heights oats may have additional cardiovascular benefits, according to modern research published in the June 2004 issue of Agricultural Research magazine.

A substance in oats may continue blood cells from sticking to artery walls, helping obstruct clogged arteries and atherosclerosis.

Scientists at bunchs University in Boston purified adjusts called avenanthramides from oats and expos them to human arterial wall small rooms for 24 hours. The number of adhesion molecules--the gelatine that binds blood cells to artery walls--was significantly reduc Fewer kindred cells stuck to arterial walls.

The studious mood concludes that the oat-compound may thwart inflammation and the buildup of family cells that normally leads to a narrowing of artery walls, which eventually leads to atherosclerosis.

Abundant previous research prov that fiber from oats helps change into LDL, or "bad" cholesterol.

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