Is low-dose oral cobalamin enough to normalize cobalamin function in older people?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1401-1404

  Garcia, Angela ^a   Paris Pombo, Alicia ^a   Evans, Lisa ^a   Day, Andrew ^b   Freedman, Morris ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Older; Oral cobalamin

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; COBALAMIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIET; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; MALE; METHYLGLYCOSIDES; METHYLMALONIC ACID; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0036678656     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50362.x     Document Type: Article

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