Normalization of zinc intake enhances neurological retrieval of patients suffering from ischemic strokes

Nutritional Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 219-225

  Aquilani, Roberto ^a   Baiardi, Paola ^b   Scocchi, Marco ^c   Iadarola, Paolo ^d   Verri, Manuela ^d   Sessarego, Paolo ^a   Boschi, Federica ^d   Pasini, Evasio ^a   Pastoris, Ornella ^d   Viglio, Simona ^d  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b Unità di Metodologia e Statistica   (Italy)

^c Casa di Cura Villa Montallegro   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ischemic stroke; Rehabilitation; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GELATINASE B; PLACEBO; ZINC;

AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN FUNCTION; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MINERAL INTAKE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UPREGULATION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIET; DIET RECORDS; DIETARY PROTEINS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE; ZINC;

EID: 71049187991     PISSN: 1028415X     EISSN: 14768305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/147683009X423445     Document Type: Article

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