“…Preclinical studies have demonstrated a variety of protective effects in animal models of cardiovascular disease, including hypertension (Mizutani et al , ; Dolinsky et al , ; Dolinsky et al , ), hypercholesterolaemia (Penumathsa et al , ; Juhasz et al , ), atherosclerosis (Wang et al , ; Do et al , ), ischaemic heart disease (Andreadou et al , ; Novelle et al , ), diabetes (Su et al , ; Um et al , ) and metabolic syndrome (Novelle et al , ; Pechanova et al , ). These cardiovascular effects of resveratrol in laboratory animals have been reviewed in our previous article (Li et al , ) and in a recent publication (Zordoky et al , ).…”