Intake of flavonoid-rich wine, tea, and chocolate by elderly men and women is associated with better cognitive test performance1-3

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 120-127

  Nurk, Eha ^a   Refsum, Helga ^a,b   Drevon, Christian A ^a   Tell, Grethe S ^c   Nygaard, Harald A ^c,d   Engedal, Knut ^e   Smith, A David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d NKS Olaviken Hospital for Old Age Psychiatry   (Norway)

^e ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOCK DESIGN; CACAO; CONTROLLED ORAL WORD ASSOCIATION TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGIT SYMBOL TEST; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KENDRICK OBJECT LEARNING TEST; MALE; MENTAL TEST; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEA; WINE;

EID: 58649124965     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.095182     Document Type: Article

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