Assessment of the relative dose-response test as indicators of hepatic vitamin A stores in various stages of chronic liver disease

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-100

  Arantes Ferreira Peres, Wilza ^a   Villaça Chaves, Gabriela ^a   Saraiva Gonçalves, José Carlos ^b   Ramalho, Andrea ^a   Moraes Coelho, Henrique Sergio ^c  

^a Institute of Nutrition   (Brazil)

^b Faculty of Pharmacy   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

end stage liver disease; hepatitis C; retinol; vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

RETINOL; RETINOL PALMITATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

EID: 84872402833     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533612455827     Document Type: Article

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