Dietary nitrate supplementation for preventing and reducing the severity of winter infections, including COVID-19, in care homes (BEET-Winter)-a randomised placebo-controlled feasibility trial
(2022)
Journal Article
Bath, P. M., Skinner, C. J. C., Bath, C. S., Woodhouse, L. J., Areti, A., Korovesi, K., …Gordon, A. L. (2022). Dietary nitrate supplementation for preventing and reducing the severity of winter infections, including COVID-19, in care homes (BEET-Winter)-a randomised placebo-controlled feasibility trial. European Geriatric Medicine, 13, 1343-1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41999-022-00714-5
Purpose
Infections cause considerable care home morbidity and mortality. Nitric oxide (NO) has broad-spectrum anti-viral, bacterial and yeast activity in vitro. We assessed the feasibility of supplementing dietary nitrate (NO substrate) intake in ca...
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