Effect of dietary sugar intake on biomarkers of subclinical inflammation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention studies

Nutrients

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2018, Pages

  Della Corte, Karen W ^a   Perrar, Ines ^b   Penczynski, Katharina J ^a   Schwingshackl, Lukas ^c   Herder, Christian ^d,e   Buyken, Anette E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN INSTITUTE OF HUMAN NUTRITION   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH AT HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dietary fructose; Dietary glucose; Dietary sucrose; High fructose corn syrup; Inflammatory markers

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORN SYRUP; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FRUCTOSE; GLUCOSE; INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; SUCROSE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; CYTOKINE;

GLUCOSE INTAKE; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SUGAR INTAKE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; BLOOD; DIET; FACTUAL DATABASE; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY;

ADIPONECTIN; BIOMARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIET; DIETARY SUGARS; E-SELECTIN; FRUCTOSE; HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85047075393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20726643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/nu10050606     Document Type: Review

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