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The effect of dietary nitrate supplementation on isokinetic torque in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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posted on 2020-11-24, 12:19 authored by Ángel Lago-Rodríguez, Raúl Domínguez, Juan José Ramos-Álvarez, Francisco Miguel Tobal, Pablo Jodra, Rachel Tan, Stephen BaileyStephen Bailey
Dietary nitrate (NO3) supplementation, which can enhance performance in exercise settings involving repeated high-intensity efforts, has been linked to improved skeletal muscle contractile function. Although muscular strength is an important component of explosive movements and sport-specific skills, few studies have quantified indices of muscular strength following NO3 supplementation, particularly isokinetic assessments at different angular velocities. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine whether dietary NO3 supplementation improves peak torque, as assessed by the gold standard method of isokinetic dynamometry, and if this effect was linked to the angular velocity imposed during the assessment. Dialnet, Directory of Open Access Journals, MEDLINE, PubMed, SciELO, Scopus, and SPORTDiscus were searched for articles using the following search strategy: (nitrate OR beet*) AND (supplement* OR nutr* OR diet*) AND (isokinetic OR strength OR “resistance exercise” OR “resistance training” OR “muscular power”). The meta-analysis of data from 5 studies with 60 participants revealed an overall effect size of −0.01 for the effect of nitrate supplementation on isokinetic peak torque, whereas trivial effect sizes ranging from −0.11 to 0.16 were observed for independent velocity-specific (90/s, 180/s, 270/s, and 360/s) isokinetic peak torque. Four of the five studies indicated that dietary NO3 supplementation is not likely to influence voluntary knee extensor isokinetic torque across a variety of angular velocities. These results suggest that NO3 supplementation does not influence isokinetic peak torque, but further work is required to elucidate the potential of NO3 supplementation to influence other indices of muscular strength, given the dearth of experimental evidence on this topic.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Nutrients

Volume

12

Issue

10

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MDPI AG

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2020-09-29

Publication date

2020-10-02

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

2072-6643

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2072-6643

Language

  • en

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Dr Stephen Bailey. Deposit date: 23 November 2020

Article number

3022

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