Effects of dietary nitrate on blood pressure in healthy volunteers [16]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 355, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 2792-2793

  Larsen, Filip J ^a   Ekblom, Björn ^a   Sahlin, Kent ^a   Lundberg, Jon O ^b   Weitzberg, Eddie ^b  

^a SWEDISH SCHOOL OF SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SODIUM NITRATE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NITRATES;

EID: 33845877743     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc062800     Document Type: Letter

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