The Hordaland Homocysteine Study: The opposite tails odds ratios reveal differential effects of gender and intake of vitamin supplements at high and low plasma total homocysteine concentrations

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 126, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1996, Pages

  Refsum, Helga ^a,b   Nygård, Ottar ^a   Kvåle, Gunnar ^a   Ueland, Per Magne ^a   Vollset, Stein Emil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Department of Clinical Biology   (Norway)

Author keywords

correlations; gender; homocysteine; vitamins

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VITAMIN INTAKE;

EID: 0029966689     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/126.suppl_4.1244s     Document Type: Conference Paper

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