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The paper deals with the regularity of minimizers \(u\) of Lagrange problems in the Calculus of Variations \[ \min\Biggl\{\int_a^b L(t,u,u') dt: u\in H^{1,p}\bigl(a,b;{\mathbb R}^n\bigr),\;u(a)=A,\;u(b)=B\Biggr\} \] under minimal regularity assumption on the Lagrangian \(L\). The main result of the paper, which extends previous results in this direction by L.Ambrosio and O.Ascenzi, is that for Lagrangians \(L\) satisfying a standard \(p\)-growth condition (with \(p>1\)) and such that \[ g(t,s):=\lim_{| z|\to\infty}{L(t,s,z)\over 1+| z|^p} \] is locally \(C^{0,\lambda}\) in \((a,b)\times{\mathbb R}\), the function \(| u'|^{p\mu/(2\mu+2)}\) is exponentially integrable for any \(\mu<\lambda\). Moreover, if \(p\geq 2\) then \(u'\) is a function of bounded mean oscillation in \((a,b)\). The proof relies on reverse Hölder inequalities and on a characterization, due to N. Fusco, P. L. Lions and C. Sbordone, of exponentially integrable functions.