Serum selenium levels and all-cause, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality among US adults

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 404-410

  Bleys, Joachim ^a,d   Navas Acien, Ana ^b   Guallar, Eliseo ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SELENIUM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40449108784     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2007.74     Document Type: Article

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