Mother was right: Eat your vegetables and do not spit! When oral nitrate helps with high blood pressure

Hypertension

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 617-619

  Wink, David A ^a   Paolocci, Nazareno ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; CHOLESTEROL; DICLOFENAC; DRINKING WATER; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITROSAMINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; SATURATED FATTY ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUGAR;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BEET; BORDERLINE HYPERTENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DENTAL CARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LIFESTYLE; MOUTH FLORA; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; STOMACH ULCER; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; VASOSPASM; VEGETABLE;

BETA VULGARIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NITRATES; NITRITES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 39749191923     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.106617     Document Type: Note

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