Post date: Apr 28, 2015 12:31:59 AM
In this study we found that intravenous vitamin C lowered the blood pressure response to a voluntary breath hold in healthy older women. Brittney Randolph (undergraduate intern) and Hardikkumar Patel (4th year medical student) contributed equally to this paper. The full citation is: Randolph BJ, Patel HM, Muller MD. Ascorbic acid attenuates the pressor response to voluntary apnea in postmenopausal women. Physiological Reports 3(4). pii: e12384, 2015.