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Association of Vegetable Nitrate Intake With Carotid Atherosclerosis and Ischemic Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Women

Catherine P. Bondonno, Lauren C. Blekkenhorst, Richard L. Prince, Kerry L. Ivey, Joshua R. Lewis, Amanda Devine, Richard Woodman, Jon O. Lundberg, Kevin D. Croft, Peter L. Thompson,

Stroke · 2017 · 77 citations · 15 references

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Independent of other risk factors, higher vegetable nitrate was associated with a lower CCA-IMT and a lower risk of an ischemic cerebrovascular disease event.

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Acute Blood Pressure Lowering, Vasoprotective, and Antiplatelet Properties of Dietary Nitrate via Bioconversion to Nitrite

David J. Webb, Stavros Loukogeorgakis, M Okorie et al. · Hypertension · 2008 · 1.1K citations · Full text

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Carotid Intima-Media Thickening Indicates a Higher Vascular Risk Across a Wide Age Range

Matthias Lorenz, Stefan von Kegler, Helmuth Steinmetz et al. · Stroke · 2005 · 660 citations

Inorganic nitrate is a possible source for systemic generation of nitric oxide

Jon O. Lundberg, Mirco Govoni · Free Radical Biology and Medicine · 2004 · 648 citations

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Nitrate and nitrite in biology, nutrition and therapeutics

Jon O. Lundberg, Mark T. Gladwin, Amrita Ahluwalia et al. · Nature Chemical Biology · 2009 · 597 citations · Full text

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The increase in plasma nitrite after a dietary nitrate load is markedly attenuated by an antibacterial mouthwash

Mirco Govoni, Emmelie Å. Jansson, Eddie Weitzberg et al. · Nitric Oxide · 2008 · 567 citations

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