Prevention: B vitamins and CVD - Failure to find a simple solution

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 608-609

  Ebbing, Marta ^a   Ueland, Per Magne ^b  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; VITAMIN B GROUP;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KIDNEY DISEASE; NOTE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN B 12; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 77958538576     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2010.138     Document Type: Note

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