Ageing, nutritional status and immune response

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 133-141

  Buzina Suboticanec, Kornelija ^a   Buzina, Ratko ^a,c   Stavljenic, Ana ^b   Farley, Timothy M M ^c   Haller, Jürg ^d   Bergman Markovic, Biserka ^e   Gorajscan, Mirjana ^e  

^a Zagreb Institute of Public Health   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^e Medical Center Tresnjevka   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Ageing; Immune function; Nutritional status; Vitamin deficiency; Vitamin supplementation

Indexed keywords

IRON; VITAMIN; ZINC;

AGED; AGING; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL DEFICIENCY; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BODY MASS; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; RIBOFLAVIN DEFICIENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY, DELAYED; IMMUNITY; IRON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RIBOFLAVIN DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN B 6 DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY; VITAMINS; ZINC;

EID: 0031959843     PISSN: 03009831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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