Hypertension prevention and treatment agents

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a preventing and treating agent for hypertension capable of suppressing the increase of blood pressure and improving hypertension, and usable as a medicine or a food for preventing and treating hypertension. SOLUTION: (a) A compound selected from a group consisting of coffeic acid, chlorogenic acid and ferulic acid, esters of the compounds, and pharmaceutically permissible salts of the compounds, and (b) a preventing and treating agent for hypertension containing a sugar alcohol.