Table 5.

Recent health-related pomegranate studies in humans.

Derivative	Subject	Effect	References
whole fruit extract	overweight and obese patients	anti-inflammatory effect; ↓body weight, serum glucose, total cholesterol, LDL; ↑HDL	[91]
juice	hemodialysis patients	improved blood pressure, serum triglycerides, HDL, oxidative stress and inflammation	[85]
juice	humans with type 2 diabetes	↓serum erythropoietin level	[86]
juice	humans with type 2 diabetes	↓systolic and diastolic blood pressure	[87]
juice	healthy adults	maintains visual memory skills	[88]
juice	endurance-based athletes	modulation of fat and protein damage	[89]
juice	active healthy men	↓systolic blood pressure, creatinine and muscle damage parameters	[90]
seed oil	humans with type 2 diabetes	↓levels of fasting blood sugar	[93,94]
peel extract	humans with type 2 diabetes	hypolipemic, hypoglycemic, and antioxidative potential	[92]
peel extract	patients with dyslipidemia	↓systolic blood pressure, LDL, total cholesterol; ↑HDL	[95]
microencapsulated pomegranate	women with acute coronary syndrome	reverts high-density lipoprotein-induced endothelial dysfunction and ↓postprandial triglyceridemia	[96]