Dietary and Serum Iron, Body Iron Stores and Coronary Heart Disease

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 489-492

  Gupta, R ^a   Rastogi, Shweta ^b   Nagar, Ranjana ^b   Kastia, Shilpa ^b   Kaul, V ^a  

^a Monilek Hospital and Research Centre   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BODY COMPOSITION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; IRON INTAKE; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY COMPOSITION; CORONARY DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; INDIA; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 0034188988     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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