Antioxidant supplements and mortality

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-44

  Bjelakovic, Goran ^a   Nikolova, Dimitrinka ^a   Gluud, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Department 7812 ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antioxidants; Mortality; Supplements

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; BETA CAROTENE; RETINOL;

CHRONIC DISEASE; DIET; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

ANTIOXIDANTS; BETA CAROTENE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN E;

EID: 84890994942     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000009     Document Type: Review

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