{"id":3847,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/low-vitamin-c-levels-can-increase-risk-of-stroke-in-hypertensive-patients\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:27","slug":"low-vitamin-c-levels-can-increase-risk-of-stroke-in-hypertensive-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/low-vitamin-c-levels-can-increase-risk-of-stroke-in-hypertensive-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Low vitamin C levels can increase risk of stroke in hypertensive patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>A clinical epidemiological study involving more than 2,400 participants in Finland investigated the association between blood levels of vitamin C and the occurrence of stroke. The study participants were patients with hypertension \u2013 a condition associated with an increased risk of stroke \u2013 who were observed over a period of 10.4 years. The results of the trials showed that \u2013 regardless of all other factors \u2013 male hypertensive patients with low vitamin C levels had a 2.6-fold higher risk of stroke. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Kurl et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/12052992\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary A clinical epidemiological study involving more than 2,400 participants in Finland investigated the association between blood levels of vitamin C and the occurrence of stroke. The study participants were patients with hypertension \u2013 a condition associated with an increased risk of stroke \u2013 who were observed over a period of 10.4 years. The results&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[545],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6999,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions\/6999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}