Inorganic nitrate attenuates endothelial dysfunction consequent to systemic inflammation

  • Lau C
  • Shabbir A
  • Rathod K
  • et al.
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Introduction: Chronic cardiovascular diseases are characterised by lowgrade systemic inflammation and attenuated nitric oxide (NO) bioavailability resulting in endothelial dysfunction. Inorganic nitrate augments NO bioavailability and improves markers of vascular dysfunction in patients with cardiovascular risk factors. However, the exact mechanism of this effect is uncertain. Purpose: To determine whether inorganic nitrate supplementation alters systemic inflammation-induced endothelial dysfunction. Methods: 62 healthy male volunteers were randomised 1:1 to receive ∼8- 10 mmol of dietary inorganic nitrate in beetroot juice or nitrate-free beetroot juice (placebo) once daily for 6 days. Measures of brachial artery flowmediated dilatation (FMD), brachial blood pressure (BP), pulse wave analysis and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (PWV) by Vicorder were taken prior to and at 8 hours after a typhoid vaccine (to induce mild systemic inflammation). Plasma, urine and saliva samples were also collected. Clinicaltrials. gov: NCT02715635. Results: Baseline characteristics were similar between the two groups. Inorganic nitrate significantly elevated plasma nitrite (placebo = Δ0.02±0.5 μM, inorganic nitrate = Δ0.63±1.2 μM; p=0.01) and nitrate levels (p<0.0001) compared to placebo. There were significant increases in urine nitrite (p<0.0001) and nitrate (p<0.0001) in addition to salivary nitrite (p<0.0001) and nitrate (p<0.0001) compared to placebo. After 8 hours, typhoid vaccine induced an increase in circulating white cells (placebo = Δ3.34±3.37x109/L, inorganic nitrate = Δ2.9±2.78x109/L; p=0.58) that was similar in in both arms. However, there was a significant reduction in the FMD response in the placebo group at 8-hours post vaccine; an effect that was absent in volunteers treated with inorganic nitrate (placebo = Δ-1.33±1.53%, inorganic nitrate = Δ-0.07±1.84%, p=0.005). Importantly, there were no statistically significant differences in baseline vessel diameter (p=0.78), time to peak diameter in response to flow (p=0.87) and peak shear rate (p=0.57) between the groups. When comparing change from baseline to 8 hours after the vaccine, there were no significant differences in brachial systolic BP (p=0.12), central systolic BP (p=0.12) and PWV (p=0.60) between groups, but a significant reduction in brachial diastolic BP in the inorganic nitrate group (p=0.048). Conclusions: Inflammation-induced endothelial dysfunction was prevented in those receiving dietary inorganic nitrate suggesting that elevating circulating nitrite and delivering NO to the blood vessel wall, through dietary approaches may offer potential therapeutic benefit in those cardiovascular diseases which typically exhibit low grade inflammation and deficiencies in bioavailable NO.

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Lau, C., Shabbir, A., Rathod, K. S., Chhetri, I., Ono, M., Hamers, A. J. P., … Ahluwalia, A. (2021). Inorganic nitrate attenuates endothelial dysfunction consequent to systemic inflammation. European Heart Journal, 42(Supplement_1). https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab724.3008

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