Effects of a 'healthy' diet and of acute and long-term vitamin C on vascular function in healthy older subjects

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 118-125

  Singh, Nivedita ^a   Graves, Jonathan ^a   Taylor, Paul D ^a   MacAllister, Raymond J ^b   Singer, Donald R J ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Endothelial function; Nitric oxide

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BRADYKININ; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE DONOR; PLACEBO;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VASODILATATION; VEIN OCCLUSION PLETHYSMOGRAPHY;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AREA UNDER CURVE; ASCORBIC ACID; BRADYKININ; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITROGLYCERIN; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0036774130     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00514-X     Document Type: Article

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