FIELD: medicine, therapy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to carotinoid-containing compositions and to methods of their using for reducing the arterial pressure value in mammals, in particular, in humans. Compositions comprise the effective amount of carotinoid chosen from the group consisting of licopin, phytofluene, phytoene, astaxanthin and cataxanthin or their mixtures. Administration of such compositions provides reducing the arterial pressure by normalization of physical properties of blood being such as decreasing viscosity value and prevention/aggregation of platelets, or physico-mechanical properties of blood vessels being such as flexibility of arterial wall and the vasodilating response.
EFFECT: valuable medicinal properties of carotionoids.
39 cl, 1 tbl, 2 ex
