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Dietary Nitrate Supplementation and Exercise Performance: An Umbrella Review of 20 Published Systematic Reviews with Meta-analyses
Sports Medicine
2025
55(5):1213–1231
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- PubMed
- PMID 40085422
- PubMed Central
- PMC12106159
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- The authors report no specific grant from public, commercial, or not-for-profit funding agencies.
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- All eight authors declare no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the article (publisher statement).
Study snapshot
| Design | Umbrella review and meta-analysis of published systematic reviews |
|---|---|
| Model | Healthy adults undergoing exercise tests |
| Sample | 20 reviews; 180 primary studies; 2,672 unique participants |
| Intervention | Dietary nitrate supplements and nitrate-rich products versus placebo |
| Duration | Acute and multi-day exercise protocols |
| Endpoints | Time to exhaustion; Total distance; Muscular endurance; Peak power; Time to peak power; Other exercise outcomes |
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