Trace metals and the elderly

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 801-818

  McClain, Craig J ^a,b   McClain, Marion ^a   Barve, Shirish ^a   Boosalis, Maria G ^c  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CHELATING AGENT; CHROMIUM; DITHIZONE; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PLACEBO; SELENIUM; TRACE METAL; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

ACRODERMATITIS ENTEROPATHICA; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANOREXIA; CANCER PREVENTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DIARRHEA; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIGHT BLINDNESS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; RETINA MACULA DEGENERATION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; SELENIUM DEFICIENCY; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; WOUND HEALING; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

AGED; ANIMALS; CHROMIUM; COGNITION DISORDERS; COPPER; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENTS; VISION DISORDERS; WOUND HEALING; ZINC;

EID: 0036830313     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0690(02)00040-X     Document Type: Review

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