Table 3.

Overall skin elasticity after daily consumption of 30 g chocolate for 6, 9 and 12 weeks

	High-flavanol chocolate (n = 33)	Low-flavanol chocolate (n = 41)	P value of changes between treatments
Overall elasticity (mm)
Arm
Baseline	0.76 ± 0.08	0.76 ± 0.09	-
Week 6	0.76 ± 0.09	0.75 ± 0.06	0.61
Week 9	0.77 ± 0.08	0.76 ± 0.07	0.48
Week 12	0.76 ± 0.10	0.75 ± 0.08	0.42
P value (Week 6 vs Baseline)	0.97	0.51
P value (Week 9 vs Baseline)	0.29	0.95
P value (Week 12 vs Baseline)	0.77	0.39
Temple
Baseline	0.54 ± 0.11	0.55 ± 0.10	-
Week 6	0.59 ± 0.09	0.55 ± 0.10	0.04
Week 9	0.55 ± 0.12	0.56 ± 0.10	0.64
Week 12	0.60 ± 0.12	0.57 ± 0.11	0.10
P value (Week 6 vs Baseline)	0.0024	0.92
P value (Week 9 vs Baseline)	0.33	0.81
P value (Week 12 vs Baseline)	0.0016	0.10

Values represent means ± SD.

Values in bold are statistically significant.