Few favorable associations between fruit and vegetable intake and biomarkers for chronic disease risk in American adults

Nutrition Research

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 616-624

  Fisk, Paul S ^a   Middaugh, Amanda L ^a   Rhee, Yeong S ^a   Brunt, Ardith R ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Fruit; Glycosylated hemoglobin; Nutritional surveys; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET RESTRICTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; DIET RECORDS; DIET SURVEYS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 80052970934     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: 18790739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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