Beetroot juice may help heart patients

Beetroot juice supplements may help enhance exercise capacity in patients with heart failure, a study has found.

Exercise capacity is a key factor linked to these patients’ quality of life and even survival, said researchers from Indiana University in the US.
 

The study, published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure, examined the impact of dietary nitrate in the form of beetroot juice supplements on the exercise capacity of eight heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction.

It is a condition in which the heart muscle does not contract effectively and cannot get enough oxygen-rich blood to the body.

Millions of people suffer from