Ascorbate is depleted by smoking and repleted by moderate supplementation: A study in male smokers and nonsmokers with matched dietary antioxidant intakes

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 530-536

  Lykkesfeldt, Jens ^b   Christen, Stephan ^b   Wallock, Lynn M ^b   Chang, Harry H ^b   Jacob, Robert A ^b   Ames, Bruce N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Ascorbic acid; Dietary supplementation; Folic acid; Lycopene; Plasma antioxidants; Poor diet; Population study; San Francisco Bay area; Smoking; tocopherol; carotene; tocopherol

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CAROTENOID; FOLIC ACID ANTAGONIST; GAMMA TOCOPHEROL; LYCOPENE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SMOKING; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0033958529     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/71.2.530     Document Type: Article

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