Why should a single nutrient reduce mortality?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2153-2154

  Wilmore, Douglas W ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; FOLIC ACID; GLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CELL PROTECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MARKETING; EDITORIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NITROGEN BALANCE; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; SURVIVAL TIME;

EID: 0036742214     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200209000-00039     Document Type: Editorial

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