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Spinacia oleraceaFinding

Spinacia oleracea has no detected effect on diastolic blood pressure (setting unspecified)

no difference foundVery limited evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Post meal carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (P=0.07), augmentation index (P=0.63), small artery elasticity index (P=0.98) and diastolic blood pressure (P=0.13) were not significantly altered by spinach relative to control.”
Quoted verbatim from Effects of a nitrate-rich meal on arterial stiffness and blood pressure in healthy volunteers.
This finding among the 78 findings on its endpoint

Spinacia oleracea

Diastolic blood pressure (setting unspecified)

no difference found

Who
n = 26 · healthy men and women aged 38-69 years; acute effect up to 210 min after a single energy-matched 2000 kJ meal, high-nitrate spinach meal against low-nitrate control meal
Dose studied
single meal containing 220 mg nitrate derived from spinach, 2000 kJ

Very limited evidencePMID 24120618 · 2013

02 · The study

Study
crossover
Participants
26
Duration
not reported

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
  • moderate
  • limited
  • very limitedthis finding
  • insufficient

03 · The paper

Nitric oxide
What else it reported4 findings · 0 compounds · 4 endpoints

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M70PQ6MRRR57R0RXT6JN987T