Vitamin C status correlates with markers of metabolic and cognitive health in 50-year-olds: Findings of the CHALICE cohort study

Nutrients

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Pearson, John F ^a   Pullar, Juliet M ^a   Wilson, Renee ^a   Spittlehouse, Janet K ^a   Vissers, Margreet C M ^a   Skidmore, Paula M L ^b   Willis, Jinny ^c   Cameron, Vicky A ^a   Carr, Anitra C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c CANTERBURY DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ascorbate; Cognition; Glucose; HbA1c; Hypovitaminosis C; Insulin

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; INSULIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; AGE; BLOOD; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY AGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; ASCORBIC ACID; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BIOMARKERS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTHY AGING; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMMENDED DIETARY ALLOWANCES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85026832797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu9080831     Document Type: Article

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