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Yazdanpanah, Z., Amiri, M., Najarzadeh, A., Hooshmandi, H., Azadi-Yazdi, M. (2021). Effects of Cinnamon Supplementation on Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials. , 2(1), 100-6. doi: 10.18502/CCB.V2I1.5871
Zeinab Yazdanpanah; Mandana Amiri; Azadeh Najarzadeh; Hadis Hooshmandi; Maryam Azadi-Yazdi. "Effects of Cinnamon Supplementation on Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials". , 2, 1, 2021, 100-6. doi: 10.18502/CCB.V2I1.5871
Yazdanpanah, Z., Amiri, M., Najarzadeh, A., Hooshmandi, H., Azadi-Yazdi, M. (2021). 'Effects of Cinnamon Supplementation on Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials', , 2(1), pp. 100-6. doi: 10.18502/CCB.V2I1.5871
Yazdanpanah, Z., Amiri, M., Najarzadeh, A., Hooshmandi, H., Azadi-Yazdi, M. Effects of Cinnamon Supplementation on Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials. , 2021; 2(1): 100-6. doi: 10.18502/CCB.V2I1.5871
Effects of Cinnamon Supplementation on Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials
Critical Comments in Biomedicine
Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter and Spring 2021, Pages 100-6	 PDF (4.12 MB)
DOI: 10.18502/CCB.V2I1.5871
Zeinab Yazdanpanah 1; Mandana Amiri2; Azadeh Najarzadeh 1; Hadis Hooshmandi 2; Maryam Azadi-Yazdi 2
11. Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 2. Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
21 Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran 2 Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran
Background: Hypertension is a chronic condition that might lead to renal and cardiovascular diseases. Previous clinical trials examining the effect of cinnamon supplementation on blood pressure have led to conflicting results. The present study aimed to summarize the effect of cinnamon supplementation on blood pressure using a meta-analysis of published randomized controlled clinical trials.
Methods: To identify the eligible articles, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, ISI Web of Science, and Google Scholar were searched from inception until September 2019 for relevant articles. The risk of bias assessment was performed using the Cochrane collaboration's tool. A Random-effects model was applied to calculate the summary effects.
Results: Totally, 11trials with 686 participants were included in this systematic review and meta-analysis. The dose of cinnamon supplement consumption varied from 500 to 10000 mg/d. The meta-analysis revealed that cinnamon supplementation significantly decreases systolic blood pressure (SBP) [WMD (weighted mean difference) = -5.72 mmHg, 95% confidence interval (CI): -8.63 to -2.80; p <0.001, I2= 81.1)] and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (WMD= -4.06 mmHg, 95% CI: -6.68 to -1.44; P= 0.002, I2 = 88.6). Subgroup analysis suggested no significant reduction in DBP in subjects with diabetes (WMD= -2.015 mmHg, 95% CI: -4.55 to 0.52; P= 0.12, I2 = 72.3) and prediabetes or metabolic syndrome (WMD= -4.8 mmHg, 95% CI: -10.06 to 0.44; P= 0.073, I2= 92.5).
Conclusions: Cinnamon supplementation could be beneficial in lowering SBP and DBP in adults. Further studies with different doses are recommended to confirm the present findings.
Blood pressure; Cinnamon; Randomized controlled clinical trials; Systematic review; Meta-analysis
Hypertension is an important public health problem, leading to complications such as cardiovascular diseases, renal damage, and stroke; as it is considered as a substantial cause of death, worldwide [1]. It is proposed that approximately
35-45% of the world population and also 21.4% of Iranians suffer from hypertension [2, 3]. Common treatments consist of health behavior modification and then antihypertensive drugs; therefore, lifestyle and nutrition are considered as important steps for its prevention and control [4, 5]. Recently, there has been a focus on the role of functional foods such as garlic, dietary fiber, licorice and also cinnamon in the treatment of hypertension [6-9].
Cinnamon is one of herbal medicines that is used for the treatment of intestinal colic, common cold, and respiratory and gastrointestinal disorders [10]. Nowadays, studies have found that it has antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, and antihyperlipidemic effects, and also might improve cardiovascular diseases [11-13]. Cinnamon consists of a variety of bioactive ingredients, including cinnamaldehyde, cinnamic acid, cinnamate [14], and numerous antioxidants, polyphenols, and flavonoids [15]. Animal studies have postulated that cinnamaldehyde might be able to regulate blood pressure by peripheral vasodilatation and also to dilate vascular smooth muscle via an endothelium-independent manner [16]. The vasodilatory effect of cinnamaldehyde maybe because of inhibiting both Ca2+ influx and release [17]. A study revealed that cinnamic aldehyde and cinnamic acid of cinnamon have cardioprotective effects against myocardial ischemia injury [13]. Cinnamon polyphenols could impact insulin activity and diabetes symptoms [18]. Cinnamaldehyde may also prevent the development of hypertension in type 1 and 2 diabetes through normalization of vascular contractility, as well as its insulinotropic effect in hypoinsulinemia [19].
Some clinical trials have suggested that cinnamon consumption reduces the elevated systolic blood pressure (SBP) [20-25]. However, other studies could not confirm this finding [26-30]. Besides, findings regarding the effect of cinnamon supplementation on diastolic blood pressure (DBP) are inconclusive, as several trials observed significant improvements [20-23, 27] and the others reported no effect on DBP [24-26, 28-30]. Due to the contradictions observed in the literature, the present systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), was conducted to clarify the effect of cinnamon on SBP and DBP in adults. Moreover, this study aimed to assess the possible difference in the effect of cinnamon on blood pressure based on gender, supplementation dose, duration, and participants' health status.
The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) statement was followed [31] for reporting this systematic review and meta-analysis. The protocol was registered in the international prospective register of systematic reviews (PROSPERO) in July 2019 (registration code: CRD42019137565).
A comprehensive literature search was done from inception up to September 15th, 2019, in electronic databases including PubMed/Medline, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. The search was carried out without any language or time restriction. To find the relevant papers and the following Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) and non-MeSH keywords were used: 1) "cinnamomum aromaticum", cinnamon*, "cinnamomum cassia", "cinnamomum zeylanicum", rinnamomum*, cinnamaldehyde, "cinnamic aldehyde"; 2) "blood pressure", BP, "diastolic pressure", "systolic pressure", "pulse pressure", hypertension, "arterial tensions", "systolic blood pressure", "diastolic blood pressure", SBP, DBP, "systolic arterial pressure"; and 3) rats, mice, mouse, "in vitro", "in vivo", "animal experimentation", "animal Model", "laboratory animals". The searched studies were included the keywords group 1 and 2 in their titles/abstracts without keywords group 3. We also used keywords related to anthropometric indices, inflammatory and antioxidant factors, blood lipids, glucose, and CVD since BP might be regarded as a secondary outcome in some related studies. In addition, reference lists of related articles were checked manually to find the possibly missing papers.
The following inclusion criteria were applied to select the related articles: (1) the design of the study should be randomized controlled trial (RCT); (2) performed in adults (aged 18 years or older); (3) reporting blood pressure as a primary or secondary outcome variable; (4) evaluating the effect of oral cinnamon supplementation (extract or powder) vs. either placebo, or no intervention. Trials were excluded if they (1) used a mixture of cinnamon supplementation and other herbs for intervention, and the difference between the intervention and control group was not only in cinnamon supplementation; (2) examined only the short-term or immediate post-consumption effect of cinnamon supplementation (less than 7 days of intervention); (3) reported duplicate data; (4) were letters, editorial articles, case reports or review article.
Three researchers (MAY, HH, ZY) conducted the initial screening of articles (title and abstract) and examined the full-text of relevant studies. Two investigators (ZY, MA) independently extracted data (the last name of the first author, year of publication, country, study design, gender, sample size, age, subjects' health status, type and dosage of supplementary cinnamon, duration (weeks), and mean [standard deviation (SD)] for SBP and DBP changes in the intervention and the placebo groups) from eligible studies. Means ± SDs for baseline and after intervention period were used to calculate mean change ± SD in SBP and DBP for each group. For studies that did not report the change values, P values or estimated correlation coefficient (r = 0.63 for SBP and r = 0.75 for DBP) for baseline and endpoint values which were extracted from the other clinical trials were used to impute the SE for mean changes. All processes were checked by the other authors.
Risk of bias assessment
The quality of included publications were evaluated using Cochrane Collaboration's Risk of Bias tool (16) based on the following criteria: (1) random sequence generation (selection bias), (2) allocation concealment, (3) blinding of participants and personnel, (4) blinding outcome data, (5) incomplete outcome data, and (6) selective reporting. These studies were classified as "high risk" of bias, "low risk" of bias and" unclear risk" based on each domain. Two authors (ZY and MA) independently assessed the methodological quality of the eligible studies against the six criteria. Any discrepancy was resolved by discussing a third author (AN).
The difference in mean change values and its standard error between the intervention (cinnamon supplementation) and control groups was calculated for each trial and used as effect size for meta-analyses. A DerSimonian and Laird random-effects model was applied to calculate the weighted mean difference (WMD) and the corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) [32].
Cochran's Q test and the I2 statistic (I2) were used to evaluate the inter-study heterogeneity [33]. Different subgroup analyses were performed to detect the possible sources of between-study heterogeneity by considering the following variables: gender (both, female, and male), health status (T2DM, prediabetes/ metabolic syndrome, and others), duration of intervention ([34]. Publication bias was investigated for each outcome through visual inspection of funnel plots and conducting statistical asymmetry tests (Begg's and Egger's tests) [35]. STATA software (version 11.2; Stata Corp, College Station, TX) was used for all statistical analyses. P values lower than 0.05 were considered as statistically significant.
The initial database search resulted in 4337 potentially relevant studies of which 3497 records remained after removing duplicate references. Based on the screening of the titles/abstracts, 99 studies were identified to be carefully checked by reading their full-texts; of these, 88 articles were excluded for the following reasons: (1) did not assess the effect of cinnamon supplementation on BP (n = 82), (2) had no control group (n = 1), (3) data were already reported in another included publication (n = 2), (4) examined the immediate post-consumption effect of cinnamon (n = 1), and (5) study participants were younger than 18 years (n = 2). The references for excluded studies and the reason for their exclusion are available in Table 1. Finally, 11 eligible RCTs were included in the current systematic review and meta-analysis [20-30]. The study selection flow diagram is illustrated in Figure 1.
Table 1. Excluded studies with reasons (n = 88)
Reason for exclusion
Not systolic and diastolic blood pressure as outcome (n= 82)
[36-117]
Evaluation of immediate post-consumption effect (n=1)
Duplicate data of other studies (n=2)
[119, 120]
Had no control group (n= 1)
Studies conducted in children (n= 2)
Figure 1. Study selection flow diagram
Characteristics of included articles
The characteristics of the eleven clinical trials which were eligible to be included in the current systematic review and meta-analysis are presented in Table 2. All studies had a parallel design, and their duration varied from 6 to 16 weeks. The studies were published between 2006 and 2018 in the United Kingdom [20, 21], Iran [27, 28, 30], India [22, 24], USA [25, 26], and other countries [23, 29]. Eight studies included both genders [20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28-30], two were conducted only in females [21, 27] and one only included male participants [24], with the age ranging from 44 to 64.5 years. One study used cinnamon supplementation in the form of dried water extract [26], and other studies administered cinnamon powder with a dose of 500 to 10000 mg/d [20-25, 27-30]. Moreover, of the 11 included studies, five presented dietary intakes of participants during the study [20, 21, 25, 27, 30]. Two studies mentioned that they instructed their participants to maintain their previous food habits [24, 28] and also in two studies, participants continued the diet that was recommended during the run-in period [22, 23]. The remaining studies did not report information about dietary intake [26, 29]. Four included trials reported a reduction in both SBP and DBP [20-23], and some found a significant decline only in SBP [24, 25] or DBP [27]. However, four trials did not observe a significant difference between intervention and control groups [26, 28-30]. The effects of cinnamon supplementation were evaluated in different health status, as six studies focused on T2DM patients [20, 23, 24, 28-30], and the other studies included subjects with metabolic syndrome (MetS) and prediabetes [22, 25, 26], rheumatoid arthritis [27], and overweight [21].
Table 2. Characteristics of eligible studies evaluating the effect of cinnamon supplementation on SBP and DBP
Author (Ref)
Sample size (control / intervention)
Duration (wk)
Intervention/control
(name and daily dose)
Notes about glycemic indicators (cinnamon vs. placebo group)
The time of consumption
Akilen et al. [20]
T2DM
54.9 ± 9.8
double blind
2000 mg of cinnamon powder (Cinnamomum cassia)/starch
↓ DBP
↓ SBP
Follow their normal routine diet
Significant decrease
With meals
Azimi et al. [30]
54.33 ± 0.5
single blind
3000 mg of cinnamon powder (Cinnamomum verum) + three glasses of tea/three glasses of tea
↔ DBP
↔ SBP
Three times throughout the day
Aldayel et al. [124]
Control=
53 ± 2.7
Intervention= 56 ± 1.3
5000 mg of cinnamon powder (Cinnamomum cassia)/corn flour
Immediately after meals
Gupta et al. [22]
3000 mg of cinnamon powder/ wheat flour
Macronutrients equal to placebo group
Vafa et al. [28]
Control= 55.67 ± 7.98
Intervention= 54.11 ± 10.37
3000 mg of cinnamon powder (Cinnamomumzeylanicum)/wheat flour
Shishehbor et al. [125]
2000 mg of cinnamon powder
(Cinnamomum burmannii)/starch
Soni et al. [24]
RCT, parallel
2000 mg of cinnamon powder (Cinnamomum cassia)/ no receiving supplementation
Wainstein et al. [29]
63.05 ± 10.85
1200 mg of cinnamon powder (Cinnamomum cassia)/ microcrystalline cellulose
Anderson et al. [26]
Prediabetic
61.3 ± 6.36
500 dried water extract of cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia)/ wheat flour
Sengsuk et al. [23]
Intervention= 57.2 ± 1.1
1500 mg of cinnamon powder/ placebo
Zeigenfuss et al. [126]
& MetS
500 mg of water soluble extract (equivalent to 10000 mg of whole cinnamon powder)/ microcrystalline cellulose
SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; Ref, reference; F, females; M, males; T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; MetS, metabolic syndrome; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; RCT, randomized clinical trial; NA, not available; ↓, reduction; ↔, no change
Results of the quality assessment based on the Cochrane Collaboration's tool are summarized in Table 3. In brief, five trials had a low risk of bias for all items of methodological quality assessment [20, 22, 23, 27, 29]. The method used to generate the random sequence and allocation concealment were unclear in four studies [21, 24, 25, 28]. Also, two included studies were high risk regarding blinding of personnel and outcome assessment [21, 30]. All of the studies were "low risk" regarding the incomplete outcome data and selective reporting.
Table 3. Study quality and risk of bias assessment
Author, year (reference)
Selective reporting
Akilen, 2010 [20]
Azimi, 2014 [30]
Aldayel, 2016 [124]
Gupta, 2017 [22]
Vafa, 2012 [28]
Shishehbor, 2018 [125]
Soni, 2015 [24]
Wainstein, 2011[29]
Anderson, 2015 [26]
Sengsuk, 2016 [23]
Zeigenfuss, 2006 [126]
Ref, reference; L, low risk; H, high risk; U, unclear
Meta-analysis results
Effect of cinnamon supplementation on systolic blood presssure
The pooled analysis of eleven trials with 686 participants, demonstrated an overall significant reduction in SBP by -5.72 mmHg (95% CI: -8.64, -2.80; P < 0.001), and the between-study heterogeneity was significant (Cochran's Q statistic = 23.38, P < 0.001, I2 = 81.1%) (Figure 2). The subgroup analysis according to the administered dose, revealed a significant decrease 2000-3000 mg/d (WMD = -6.04 mmHg; 95% CI: -9.81, -2.27 mmHg; P= 0.002); however, the supplementation was not significant at the dose of ≥3000 mg/d (WMD = -5.52; 95% CI: -11.44, 0.39 mmHg; P = 0.067). The subgroup analysis based on participants' health status showed that SBP was significantly declined by cinnamon supplementation in subgroups (T2DM, prediabetes/Mets and others). Moreover, significant decrease in SBP following cinnamon consumption was observed in both subgroups of duration, and the effect was considerable in studies with more than 12 weeks of follow-up (WMD = -6.62 mmHg; 95% CI: -9.23, -4.02 mmHg; P <0.001; I2 = 53%). Subgroup analysis revealed that cinnamon supplementation with or immediately after meals could decrease systolic blood pressure; however, the reducing effect was greater when the supplementation was done after meals (WMD = --9.5 mmHg; 95% CI: -8.63, -2.80 mmHg; P <0.001; I2 = 36.8%). The results of subgroup analyses, as well as overall analyse are illustrated in Table 4.
Figure 2. Forest plot summarizing the effects of cinnamon supplementation on systolic blood pressure
Effect of cinnamon supplementation on diastolic blood pressure
The meta-analysis of 11 trials suggested that cinnamon supplementation considerably decreased DBP (WMD = -4.06 mmHg, 95% CI: -6.68, -1.44, P = 0.002) and the heterogeneity among studies was significant (Cochran's Q statistic = 88.08, P < 0.001, I2 = 88.6%) (Figure 3). The subgroup analysis based on the health status of participants revealed that cinnamon could not significantly lower DBP in patients with T2DM (WMD = -2.01, 95% CI: -4.55, 0.52, P = 0.12). It appears that the consumption of cinnamon supplement immediately after meals can lead to a greater reduction in DBP (WMD = -7.32; 95% CI: -11.50, -3.15 mmHg; P = 0.001). The results of subgroup analyses indicated that trials with a significant decrease in glycemic indicators (fasting blood glucose or hemoglobin A1c) were associated with further DBP reduction. The subgroup analyses based on gender, health status, duration, and dose as well as overall analysis are provided in Table 4.
Figure 3. Forest plot summarizing the effects of cinnamon supplementation on diastolic blood pressure
Table 4. Results of overall and subgroup analysis of relevant randomized controlled trials in meta-analysis of the effect of cinnamon supplement on systolic and diastolic bllod pressure1
Systolic blood pressure
Diastolic blood pressure
No. of trials
WMD2 (95%CI)
P effect
Q statistic
P within group
I2 (%)
P between subgroups
WMD (95%CI)
-5.72 (-8.63, -2.80)
<0.001
-3.641 (-6.66, -.61)
-12.41 (-18.5, -6.33)
-8.89 (-11.29, -6.49)
-3.87 (-10.42. 2.68)
0.4 (-2.5, 3.42)
-4.06 (-7.84, -.27)
-2.015 (-4.55, 0.52)
Prediabetes & MetS
-6.57 (-13.05, -0.098)
-4.8 (-10.06, 0.44)
(Overweight & RA)
≥12 wk
-4.11 (-8.48, 0.24)
-6.63 (-13.79, 1.07)
2000-3000 mg/d
≥ 3000 mg/d
-9.5 (-8.63, -2.80)
0.77 (-1.39, 2.41)
The results of glycemic indicators
Significant decreased
1 All analyses were performed using random effects model
WMD, weighted mean difference. T2DM, type 2 diabetes mellitus; MetS, metabolic syndrome; wk, week; RA, rheumatoid arthritis
Sensitivity analysis and publication bias
The results of the sensitivity analysis indicated that excluding each study from the whole sample or subgroups did not change the overall effect of the cinnamon supplementation on SBP and DBP. Egger's and Begg's tests showed no presence of publication bias for meta-analyses assessing the effect of cinnamon supplementation on SBP (Begg's test, P = 0.21; Egger's test, P = 0.37) and DBP (Begg's test, P = 1; Egger's test, P = 0.49).
The results of the present study showed that cinnamon consumption can be beneficial in reducing SBP and DBP (-5.72, -4.06 mmHg, respectively). This supplement significantly reduced SBP in patients with T2DM, whereas failed to find any significant effect on DBP in these subjects. These findings might be of clinical importance. A meta-analysis of controlled trials reported that each 5 mmHg SBP or 2 mmHg reduction in DBP could lead to lower risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality [127]. On the other hand, it is proposed that cinnamon and its components may be important in the prevention and alleviation of all factors associated with metabolic syndrome including insulin sensitivity, body weight, inflammation and blood pressure [128].
Our result regarding the effect of cinnamon supplementation on DBP is consistent with a meta-analysis by Akilen et al. [9], which evaluated the effects of short-term administration of cinnamon on blood pressure in T2DM and prediabetes and found a significant benefit in terms of DBP decline in these patients. However, the mentioned meta-analysis included three studies with 139 subjects.
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have a substantial role in the pathophysiology of coronary heart disease [129]. Increased AGEs result in endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress and inflammation, which can cause hypertension and atherosclerosis. It is proposed that therapies that reduce insulin resistance and/or AGEs levels are effective in attenuating blood pressure, oxidative stress, and atherosclerotic vascular changes [130]. Recent studies demonstrated that cinnamon compounds, such as catechin, epicatechin, procyanidin B2, proanthocyanidin oligomers, and phenol polymers could scavenge reactive carbonyl species and thus effectively prevent the formation of AGEs [131, 132]. The other main ingredient of cinnamon is cinnamaldehyde, which is a potent agonist of epithelial transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1) [133], and stimulates the release of calcitonin gene-related peptide and causes vasodilation in peripheral arteries [134]. The results of published studies have shown that cinnamaldehyde relaxes blood vessels by the inhibition of endogenous vasoconstrictors such as angiotensin II, and also dilates the smooth muscle by interfering with both Ca2+ influx and release [17, 19, 135]. The other possible antihypertensive mechanism of cinnamon might be its ability to increase the endothelial nitric oxide and activate the ATP-sensitive potassium (KATP) channels in vascular smooth muscle [13, 17, 19, 135]. Moreover, improvement of insulin resistance is one of the presumptive mechanisms for the effect of cinnamon on blood pressure [136-138]. Nevertheless, it is expressed that more research is necessary to be done to exactly understand the underlying mechanism of how cinnamon supplementation could help to prevent and treat hypertension [139].
The findings of the current meta-analysis suggested that daily consumption of cinnamon with a dose of 2000-3000 mg is the most beneficial dose for lowering SBP. A recent systematic review of RCTs that investigated the association between cinnamon supplementation and obesity, reported a non-significant dose-response trend of cinnamon supplementation with body mass index, and fat mass [140]. Furthermore, several human and animal studies have mentioned that there is no evidence of a dose-response relationship between cinnamon supplementation and several markers including blood pressure and response to all dosages of cinnamon was similar [135, 138, 141]. It seems that the detailed mechanism of cinnamon on BP is not well understood and needs to be further investigated. Moreover, it was shown that the consumption of cinnamon supplements immediately after meals can significantly reduce DBP. Cinnamon can delay gastric emptying and thereby acts as a factor in blood glucose homeostasis [142, 143]. Since a close association exists between glycemic indicators and blood pressure levels [9, 20, 25], cinnamon consumption might reduce BP more effectively if ingested after meals. The subgroup analyses also demonstrated that there is a relationship between glycemic indicators and SBP or DBP values, which is consistent with the proposed mechanism in this context and the results of meta‐analyses done by Akilen et al. [9] in patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.
The present study was undertaken based on a comprehensive and systematic search to identify all relevant literature and no evidence for publication bias was detected. Furthermore, to minimize bias, the study was restricted to RCTs. In addition, this review included all related published research and even those assessed BP as a secondary outcome in adults. Another strength of the current study is that the overall results were not sensitive to any single study. Even though, the present review has some limitations which need to be addressed. It should be considered that heterogeneity remained even after subgroup analyses. The heterogeneity might be explained by other variables not reported in the included studies. For instance, some studies did not report the species and composition of cinnamon used for supplementation and the dietary intake evaluation of participants. Moreover, the low number of studies included in some subgroup analyses restricted the interpretation of findings.
In summary, the present systematic review and meta-analysis suggest that cinnamon supplementation reduces SBP and DBP in adults, but has not significant effect on DBP in subjects with T2DM. Furthermore, cinnamon has a DBP lowering effect when ingested immediately after meals. Albeit, the mechanism of its effect is not fully clear and requires subsequent investigation. Further studies with different doses are recommended to confirm the present findings and to give a definitive answer to the question about the best effective dose of cinnamon that might decline blood pressure.
The authors would like to thank the research council of Nutrition and Food Security Research Center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences for comprehensive support of the present study.
Authors' contribution
ZY designed the search strategy, conducted data extraction, analyzed the data, interpreted the results and wrote the first draft of the manuscript; MA conducted data extraction and quality of the eligible studies; HH conducted the study selection; MAY conducted the study selection; AN conceived the study, interpreted the results and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
The present systematic review was financially supported by Nutrition and Food Security research center, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran.
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