{"id":6612,"date":"2022-09-13T10:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-deficiency-causes-high-blood-pressure\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T10:53:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:53:46","slug":"vitamin-c-deficiency-causes-high-blood-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/vitamin-c-deficiency-causes-high-blood-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Vitamin C deficiency causes high blood pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<p>We investigated the vitamin C (ascorbic acid) status in 1077 eastern Finnish men aged 54 years of age examined in the &#8220;Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study&#8221; in 1984-86. Dietary intake of ascorbic acid had a strong linear correlation to plasma ascorbic acid, and we found a clear seasonal variation in the plasma ascorbic acid levels: the highest values were found in August-September and again in April, and the lowest levels in November-January and in June. A true vitamin C depletion was found in 8.8% of the 1077 men studied, and, in addition, 16.5% had a mild vitamin C deprivation. The decreased plasma levels of this antioxidant vitamin may be associated with elevated blood pressure.<\/p>\n<h3>References<\/h3>\n<p>M T Parvianinen,\u00a0J T Salonen<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #5aadcb;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/2387671\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Link to article &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary We investigated the vitamin C (ascorbic acid) status in 1077 eastern Finnish men aged 54 years of age examined in the &#8220;Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study&#8221; in 1984-86. Dietary intake of ascorbic acid had a strong linear correlation to plasma ascorbic acid, and we found a clear seasonal variation in the plasma&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\/6612"}],"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=6612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6934,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6612\/revisions\/6934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthlibrary.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}