Zinc supplementation: Another myth or we are heading towards a new era in the treatment of diabetes?

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-23

  Zampelas, Antonis ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HYDROXYICOSATETRAENOIC ACID; INSULIN; ISOPROSTANE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; NEUROPROSTANE; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; ZINC; ZINC TRANSPORTER;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NOTE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

HUMANS; MALE; ZINC;

EID: 80055016485     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.06.002     Document Type: Note

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