Beetroot and Reduced Augmentation Index

• Plasma nitrate, dietary nitrate, blood pressure, and vascular health biomarkers: a GRADE-Assessed systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2025-03-24
  • Meta-Analysis · n = 1,823
  • Nutrition journal 24(1)
  • • Mostafa Norouzzadeh
    • Minoo Hasan Rashedi
    • Shadi Ghaemi
    • Niloufar Saber
    • Artemiss Mirdar Harijani
    • Hamzeh Habibi
    • Soroush Mostafavi
    • Fatemeh Sarv
    • Hossein Farhadnejad
    • Farshad Teymoori
    • Mohsen Khaleghian
    • Parvin Mirmiran

  • PubMed: 40128734
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12937-025-01114-8

  5 Insights on

  • Reduced Augmentation Index

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  medium-term augmentation index (WMD: -0.57%; 95%CI: -0.98, -0.15)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  per mmol increase in administered dose