Zinc supplementation at conventional doses does not improve the disturbance of taste perception in hemodialysis patients

Journal of Renal Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 224-228

  Matson, Andrew ^a   Wright, Mark ^b   Oliver, Alister ^a   Woodrow, Graham ^b   King, Neil ^c   Dye, Louise ^c   Blundell, John ^c   Brownjohn, Aleck ^b   Turney, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; ZINC SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG EFFECT; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PILL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPPLEMENTATION; TASTE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TASTE; ZINC; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 1642347119     PISSN: 10512276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-2276(03)00072-4     Document Type: Article

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