In a study published in AHA Journals, dietary nitrate to help with sustained blood pressure to lower reading in hypertensive patients was analysed.
The study involved 68 patients with hypertension in a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to receive daily dietary supplementation for four weeks with either dietary nitrate (250 mL daily, as beetroot juice) or a placebo (250 mL daily, as nitrate-free beetroot juice) after a two-week run-in period and followed by a two-week washout.
Daily supplementation with dietary nitrate was associated with reduction in blood pressure, found the study.
It concluded: “These findings suggest a role for dietary nitrate as an affordable, readily-available, adjunctive treatment in the management of patients with hypertension.”
