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Beet juice contains nitrate that improves vascular blood flow, with effects occurring within 30 minutes and lasting up to 24 hours, offering potential for acute blood pressure management when combined with standard therapies.

Food increases the absorption of metoprolol and serum levels may increase if taken with food.

Nearly half of U.S. adults have hypertension, but not all are receiving optimal medication choices according to current guidelines.

Recent research indicates that pharmaceutical nitrosamine contamination presents broader implications for drug safety, with increasing evidence of genotoxic and mutagenic effects even at trace levels.

In this year-long study, both standard and high-dose vitamin D supplementation achieved meaningful blood pressure reductions of 3.5/2.8 mm Hg in older adults with obesity.

Improper arm positioning during blood pressure measurement can lead to overestimations of up to 7 mmHg in systolic pressure, potentially altering patient diagnoses and treatment plans.