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Vitamin C helps chronic heart failure patients

Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:55 pm
by rasarver
"Vitamin C improves flow-dependent dilation in patients with chronic heart failure as the result of increased availability of nitric oxide. This observation supports the concept that endothelial dysfunction in patients with chronic heart failure is, at least in part, due to accelerated degradation of nitric oxide by radicals."

http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/97/4/363.abstract