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The Effect Of Co-Ingesting Beetroot Juice And Vitamin C On Blood Pressure In Hispanic Women: A Literature Review And A Proposal, Mikela De La Flor, Maya Hammer, Noelle Seekamp-Hicks, Rachel Tan

Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium

Dietary nitrate supplementation is known for improving blood pressure through vasodilation and may favorably alter oral microbial populations related to cardiovascular health. Co-ingestion with vitamin C (VITC) may further potentiate these benefits but this remains unexplored. Additionally, this field has yet to examine the influence of sex and ethnicity, which is important given that physiological differences exist between populations. The purpose of this study is to assess the effects of combining dietary nitrate, in the form of beetroot juice, and VITC on blood pressure and the oral microbiome in women of Hispanic, African American, and American descent across multiple institutions. …