PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Rizzo, Toni
ED  - Kapil, Vikas
TI  - Dietary Nitrate Improves BP
DP  - 2014 Sep 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 18--19
VI  - 14
IP  - 18
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/18/18.2.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/14/18/18.2.full
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].