Plasma total homocysteine in a representative sample of 972 British men and women aged 65 and over

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 691-697

  Bates, C J ^a   Mansoor, M A ^c   Van Der Pols, J ^a   Prentice, A ^a   Cole, T J ^a   Finch, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Social Comm Planning and Research   (United Kingdom)

^c STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

British; Elderly; Homocysteine; Nutrition; Survey; Vitamins

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ANTICHYMOTRYPSIN; CALCIUM; CREATININE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; UREA; XANTHOPHYLL; ZINC;

AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; NURSING HOME; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; UNITED KINGDOM; UREA BLOOD LEVEL; VASCULAR DISEASE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ZINC BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0030712992     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1600468     Document Type: Article

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