Key result
Dietary inorganic nitrate mildly reduces systolic blood pressure in healthy individuals but does not lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
Why the study?
Does dietary inorganic nitrate reduce blood pressure in healthy people and patients with hypertension?
Does dietary inorganic nitrate reduce blood pressure in healthy people and patients with hypertension?
Dietary inorganic nitrate mildly reduces systolic blood pressure in healthy individuals but lacks a blood pressure-lowering effect in hypertensive patients.
Does not support nitrate use in hypertension; confirms modest SBP effect limited to healthy adults.
= 0.7). In conclusion, inorganic nitrate can mildly reduce systolic blood pressure in healthy people, but does not have a lowering effect on blood pressure in patients with hypertension. Further research is required to obtain more definitive data and prove the link between inorganic nitrate and blood pressure.
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Zhang et al. (2023) studied this question. Dietary inorganic nitrate mildly reduces systolic blood pressure in healthy individuals but does not lower blood pressure in patients with hypertension.
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