Folic acid, a B vitamin, lowers stroke risk in people with high blood pressure

Posted March 18, 2015, 11:30 am Julie Corliss, Executive Editor, Harvard Heart Letter If you’re among the one in three American adults with high blood pressure, be sure you’re getting plenty of the B vitamin known as folate. Doing so may lower your odds of having a stroke, an often disabling or deadly event linked to high blood pressure, a new study suggests. …