Urinary potassium is as reliable as urinary nitrogen for use as a recovery biomarker in dietary studies of free living individuals

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1334-1340

  Tasevska, Nataša ^a   Runswick, Shirley A ^a   Bingham, Sheila A ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diet; Dietary biomarkers; Stool potassium; Urine nitrogen; Urine potassium

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBENZOIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NITROGEN; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NITROGEN URINE LEVEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; POTASSIUM INTAKE; POTASSIUM URINE LEVEL; URINALYSIS;

EID: 33646412840     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jn/136.5.1334     Document Type: Article

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