Nutritional indicators, peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets and survival in an institutionalised elderly population

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 107-112

  Lukito, Widjaja ^a   Wattanapenpaiboon, Naiyana ^b   Savige, Gayle S ^b   Hutchinson, Paul ^c   Wahlqvist, Mark L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

B cells; Iron status; Lymphocytes; Natural killer cells; Survival; T cells; Total mortality; Zinc status

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; IRON; ZINC;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; SURVIVAL; ZINC DEFICIENCY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; IRON; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VICTORIA; ZINC;

EID: 3042832803     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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