Blood pressure and vitamin C and fruit and vegetable intake

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 214-220

  Beitz, Roma ^a   Mensink, Gert B M ^a   Fischer, Beate ^b  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Fruits; Germany; Nutrition survey; Vegetables; Vitamin C

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY MASS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; AGED; ASCORBIC ACID; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; FRUIT; GERMANY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION SURVEYS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SMOKING; VEGETABLES;

EID: 0038300030     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070488     Document Type: Article

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