RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Rizzo, Toni
T1 Dietary Nitrate Improves BP
JF MD Conference Express
YR 2014
FD SAGE Publications
VO 14
IS 18
SP 18
OP 19
DO 10.1177/155989771418015
UL http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/18/18.2.abstract
AB Mammals are unable to metabolize nitrate, but symbiotic bacteria on the dorsal tongue surface reduce dietary nitrate to nitrite, which is then converted to the potent vasodilator nitric oxide [Duncan C et al. Nat Med 1995]. This article discusses results of The Chronic Effects of Beetroot Juice in Hypertensive Subjects study, which assessed whether a once-daily ingestion of dietary nitrate would exert a sustained effect on blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive patients [NCT01405898].