Low-dose creatine supplementation lowers plasma guanidinoacetate, but not plasma homocysteine, in a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial1-3

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 145, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2245-2252

  Peters, Brandilyn A ^a   Hall, Megan N ^a   Liu, Xinhua ^a   Parvez, Faruque ^a   Siddique, Abu B ^b   Shahriar, Hasan ^b   Uddin, Mohammad Nasir ^b   Islam, Tariqul ^b   Ilievski, Vesna ^a   Graziano, Joseph H ^a   Gamble, Mary V ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b Department of Epidemiology Mailman School of Public Health Columbia University ^*  (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Creatine; Folate; Folic acid; Guanidinoacetate; Homocysteine; Hyperhomocysteinemia; RCT; S adenosylmethionine

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATININE; FOLIC ACID; GUANIDINOACETIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; PLACEBO; S ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S ADENOSYLMETHIONINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLYCINE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; BANGLADESH; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DOWN REGULATION; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUT;

ADULT; BANGLADESH; BIOMARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; CREATINE; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID; GLYCINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DROPOUTS; S-ADENOSYLHOMOCYSTEINE; S-ADENOSYLMETHIONINE;

EID: 84945232592     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.115.216739     Document Type: Article

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