Blood pressure effects of vitamin C: What's the key question?

Hypertension

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 789-791

  Svetkey, Laura P ^a   Loria, Catherine M ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; DIET; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; POTASSIUM, DIETARY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STOMACH DISEASES; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036899182     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000038340.95407.43     Document Type: Note

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