Nitrates 'have no effect' on BMD in postmenopausal women
Earlier influential research reporting benefit has been retracted, the authors note
Oral nitrate therapy does not affect postmenopausal bone density or turnover, according to results from a clinical trial.
The findings support the retraction for scientific misconduct of an influential earlier study which found “strikingly positive results”, the authors say.
The New Zealand researchers undertook a one-year, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial of three different nitrate preparations at two different doses in postmenopausal
