Vitamin E ingestion does not improve arterial endothelial dysfunction in older adults

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 193-199

  Simons, L A ^a   Von Konigsmark, M ^a   Simons, J ^a   Stocker, R ^b   Celermajer, D S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti oxidants; Endothelial dysfunction; Flow mediated dilatation; Vascular ultrasound; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; PLACEBO; SOYBEAN OIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DIARRHEA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPIDS; LIPOPROTEINS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; VASODILATION; VITAMIN E;

EID: 0033037751     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9150(98)00287-1     Document Type: Article

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