Serum antioxidants and subsequent mortality rates of all causes or cancer among rural Japanese inhabitants

International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 237-250

  Ito, Yoshinori ^a   Suzuki, Koji ^a   Suzuki, Sadao ^a   Sasaki, Ryuichiro ^a   Otani, Motohiko ^a   Aoki, Kunio ^a  

^a FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer mortality; Carotenoids; Cryptoxanthin; Lycopene; Provitamin A; Retinol; Tocopherol; carotene

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANTIOXIDANTS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036024060     PISSN: 03009831     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024/0300-9831.72.4.237     Document Type: Article

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