Total serum homocysteine, folate and vitamin B12 in a Greek school age population

Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 797-802

  Papandreou, Dimitrios ^a   Mavromichalis, Ioannis ^a   Makedou, Areti ^a   Rousso, Israel ^a   Arvanitidou, Malamatenia ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Folate; Greece; Homocysteine; Vitamin B12

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; GEOMETRY; GREECE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; ADOLESCENT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; AGE FACTORS; AGING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 33748900968     PISSN: 02615614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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