Relation of body mass index to blood folate and total homocysteine concentrations in Japanese adults

European Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 581-585

  Nakazato, Mio ^a   Maeda, Takahiro ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^a   Wada, Mitsuhiro ^a   Yamasaki, Hironori ^a   Johnston, Kelley E ^b   Tamura, Tsunenobu ^b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood; Body mass index; Folate; Homocysteine; Human

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPANESE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053921762     PISSN: 14366207     EISSN: 14366215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00394-010-0165-0     Document Type: Article

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