In one HealthNews article, you wrote that vitamin C can lower your blood pressure, and in another you said that it increases the intima-media thickness (IMT), thereby increasing the risk of heart disease. Should I or shouldn't I take extra vitamin C?
Gaziano
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Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, USA.
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