{"id":3848,"date":"2022-09-13T10:57:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-supplementation-leads-to-significant-reduction-in-blood-pressure\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:57:28","slug":"vitamin-c-supplementation-leads-to-significant-reduction-in-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-supplementation-leads-to-significant-reduction-in-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C supplementation leads to significant reduction in blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>An analysis of 8 clinical trials investigating the association between vitamin C supplementation and essential hypertension showed that vitamin C supplementation led to a significant reduction in blood pressure. For daily supplementation above 500 mg of vitamin C, these results were even statistically significant (P = 0.005). What is particularly remarkable about this research is the fact that these trials were conducted with patients suffering from so-called \u201cessential hypertension\u201d. This is a form of hypertension whose cause is unknown and therefore difficult to treat. Further details can be found in the study.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>Guan et al.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32080138\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary An analysis of 8 clinical trials investigating the association between vitamin C supplementation and essential hypertension showed that vitamin C supplementation led to a significant reduction in blood pressure. For daily supplementation above 500 mg of vitamin C, these results were even statistically significant (P = 0.005). What is particularly remarkable about this research&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\/3848"}],"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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7000,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/7000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}