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Article: Slight blood pressure benefit seen with Vitamin C.(Cardiovascular Medicine)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Reno, Nev. -- Vitamin C supplementation may result in a small reduction in systolic blood pressure for hypertensive individuals and may help lower cholesterol in patients with hypercholesterolemia, according to the results of two meta-analyses presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Nutrition.
But vitamin C does not appear to be effective in lowering diastolic blood pressure among patients with hypertension, said Marc McRae of the department of nutrition and biochemical therapeutics at the National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Ill., who presented the findings.
Mr. McRae and his colleagues performed a Medline search of ...