Plasma antioxidants and asymptomatic carotid atherosclerotic disease

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 86-90

  Riccioni, Graziano ^a,d   Bucciarelli, Tonino ^b   D'Orazio, Nicolantonio ^b   Palumbo, Nicola ^a   Di Ilio, Emanuela ^b   Corradi, Francesco ^b   Pennelli, Alfonso ^b   Bazzano, Lydia A ^c  

^a SAN CAMILLO DE LELLIS HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Carotene; Antioxidants; Atherosclerosis; Carotid arteries; Lycopene; Vitamin A; Vitamin E

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA CAROTENE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LYCOPENE; RETINOL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CAROTID ARTERY; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VENOUS BLOOD; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BODY MASS INDEX; CAROTENOIDS; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E; VITAMINS;

EID: 53949124484     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000164691     Document Type: Article

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