Dietary correlates of urinary 6-sulfatoxymelatonin concentrations in the Nurses' Health Study cohorts

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 975-985

  Schernhammer, Eva S ^a,b,c,e   Feskanich, Diane ^a   Niu, Caroline ^a   Dopfel, Regina ^d   Holmes, Michelle D ^a   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYMELATONIN O SULFATE; CREATINE; MELATONIN; TRYPTOPHAN; 6-SULFATOXYMELATONIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRIENT; POULTRY; RED MEAT; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; MEAT; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSE; URINE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; CATTLE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEAT; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 70349784326     PISSN: 00029165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27826     Document Type: Article

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