Glutamic acid, the main dietary amino acid, and blood pressure: The intermap study (international collaborative study of macronutrients, micronutrients and blood pressure)

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 221-228

  Stamler, Jeremiah ^a   Brown, Ian J ^b   Daviglus, Martha L ^a   Chan, Queenie ^b   Kesteloot, Hugo ^c   Ueshima, Hirotsugu ^d   Zhao, Liancheng ^e   Elliott, Paul ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^e FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Amino acids; Blood pressure; Epidemiology; Glutamic acid; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; CYSTINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; SERINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; AMINO ACIDS; BLOOD PRESSURE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 67651121497     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.839241     Document Type: Article

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