The role of phytochemicals as micronutrients in health and disease

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 558-566

  Howes, Melanie Jayne R ^a   Simmonds, Monique S J ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cardiovascular; Dementia; Diabetes; Phytochemical

Indexed keywords

ANTHOCYANIN; CATECHIN; CURCUMIN; GLUCOSINOLATE; ISOFLAVONE DERIVATIVE; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; RESVERATROL; TRACE ELEMENT; TURMERIC; PLANT EXTRACT; STILBENE DERIVATIVE; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL STUDY; COGNITION; CURCUMA LONGA; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FOOD INTAKE; GRAPE; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; REVIEW; WINE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CURCUMA; NEOPLASMS; TEA; VITIS;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS; CURCUMA LONGA; VITACEAE; VITIS VINIFERA;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATECHIN; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CURCUMA; CURCUMIN; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; MICRONUTRIENTS; NEOPLASMS; PHYTOCHEMICALS; PLANT EXTRACTS; STILBENES; TEA; VITIS; WINE;

EID: 84927738871     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 14736519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0000000000000115     Document Type: Review

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