Poor vitamin C status is associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness, decreased microvascular function, and delayed myocardial repolarization in young patients with type 1 diabetes

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 447-452

  Odermarsky, Michal ^a   Lykkesfeldt, Jens ^b   Liuba, Petru ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; ASCORBIC ACID; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL FUNCTION; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CAROTID ARTERY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COULOMETRY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART RATE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; QT INTERVAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTIMA; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ASCORBIC ACID; CAROTID ARTERIES; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SKIN; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67949118852     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27602     Document Type: Article

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