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Article: Vitamin C helps lower blood pressure.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1990
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Vitamin C Helps Lower Blood Pressure
LONDON, ENGLAND: Supplemental vitamin C was shown to lower blood pressure in two intervention studies, it was reported recently at an international conference on antioxidants.
David Trout, Ph.D. of the United States Department of Agriculture, described the studies in which 1 gram (1,000 milligrams) of vitamin C was used experimentally to treat hypertension (high blood pressure) by scientists Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi. In a group of 20 hypertensive women fed 1 gram of vitamin C taken daily for 3 months, both systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased.
In a placebo-controlled, ...