SOURCE-LINKED STUDY SUMMARY
Dietary inorganic nitrate improves mitochondrial efficiency in humans.
Abstract summarizedQuality not appraised
- What was studied
- A double-blind crossover experiment tested whether dietary inorganic nitrate changes skeletal-muscle mitochondrial efficiency and whole-body oxygen use.
- Who / model studied
- Healthy volunteers underwent the dietary intervention; the abstract source does not report the sample size.
- Studied dose & schedule
- Dose and schedule were not reported in the source used for this summary.
- What the study found
- Nitrate improved the mitochondrial P/O ratio, lowered resting leak-type respiration, and the efficiency change correlated with reduced oxygen cost during exercise.
- Limitations & context
- Abstract assessment. These are mechanistic mitochondrial and oxygen-cost findings, not a direct test of race results, competition performance, training adaptation, or long-term clinical outcomes.
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Original publication ↗ · DOI: 10.1016/j.cmet.2011.01.004