Effect of antioxidant vitamins on the plasma homocysteine level in a free-living elderly population

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 177-182

  Breilmann, Johanna ^a   Pons Kühnemann, Jörn ^a   Brunner, Christiane ^a   Richter, Margrit ^a   Neuhäuser Berthold, Monika ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antioxidant vitamins; Elderly; Homocysteine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE;

AGED; AGING; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; GERMANY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN INTAKE;

AGED; AGING; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BETA CAROTENE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GERMANY; GLOMERULAR FILTRATION RATE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; VITAMIN E; VITAMINS;

EID: 78349258996     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321538     Document Type: Article

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