Dietary Nitrate And Hypertension

These findings suggest a role for dietary nitrate as an affordable readily available adjunctive treatment in the management of patients with hypertension funded by the british heart foundation.

Dietary nitrate and hypertension. Kapil et al dietary nitrate in hypertension 321 significant proportion of orally ingested inorganic nitrate once absorbed across the upper intestine is extracted from the blood via the salivary glands and secreted into the oral cav. The effects of 4 weeks dietary nitrate consumption nitrate rich juice 250 ml daily or placebo nitrate depleted juice 250 ml daily on nitrite concentrations in a plasma b urine c saliva and d plasma cgmp. Dietary nitrate and hypertension. According to current therapeutic approaches a nitrate dietary supplementation with beetroot juice brj is postulated as a nutritional strategy that might help to control arterial blood pressure in healthy subjects pre hypertensive population and even patients diagnosed and treated with drugs.

We randomly assigned 68 patients with hypertension in a double blind placebo controlled clinical trial to receive daily dietary supplementation for 4 weeks with either dietary nitrate 250 ml daily as beetroot juice or a placebo 250 ml daily as nitrate free beetroot juice after a 2 week run in period and followed by a 2 week washout. Dietary nitrate consumption elevates nitrite concentration in biological compartments in patients with hypertension.