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Research Updates: nutrition
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Issue 43
HU, STAMPFER, WILLETT and colleagues, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston MA 02115, USA. frank.Hu@channing.harvard.edu write that experimental stu1
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Issue 43
LI and colleagues, Department of Food Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia write that vegetarians have lower platelet and plasma concentrations of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) than do omnivores
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Issue 42
ANDERSON and colleagues, Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104 USA researched the clinical efficacy and safety of an oral nutraceutical
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Issue 42
SCROFANO and colleagues, Laboratory for Nutrition and Vision Research, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston MA 02111 USA studied the effect of diet, age and sex 1
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Issue 42
ANDERSON and colleagues, University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Department of Epidemiology, Seattle 98195 USA write that the association between self-reported past food intake and Park1
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Issue 42
CIANFRIGLIA and colleagues, Regina Elena Institute for Cancer Research, Dept ORL, Head and Neck Surgery, Rome, Italy investigated the potential relationship between dietary factors and the development of oral leukoplak1
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Issue 42
EVSTIGNEEVA and colleagues, Lomonosov Moscow State Academy of Fine Chemical Technology, rpe@httos.mitht.msk.ru reviews the known literature (150 references) regarding the mechanisms of molecular action of
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Issue 41
LANDMARK, Institutt for farmkoterapi, Oslo, Norway writes that cardiovascular morbidity and mortality is relatively low in people consuming high quantities of fish oils containing omega-3 fatt1
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Issue 41
BARTFAY and colleagues, Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Toronto Hospital, Ontario Canada review the literature (47 references) and set out to determine whether vitamin E and selenium supplementation can im1
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Issue 41
SIMON and HUDES, General Internal Medicine Section, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121 USA studied the correlates of clinical gallbladder disease among adults in the US and determined whether
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Issue 41
STEINBERG and CHAIT, Division of Metabolism, endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington, Seattle 98195-6426 USA write that previous studies have shown that cigarette smoke enhances lipid peroxidation
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Issue 41
AUER and colleagues, Chemistry Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa studied the effect of ingestion of large doses of vitamin C upon urinary oxalate excretion and upon various biochemical and physicochemic1
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Issue 37
BENO and colleagues, Institut de Recherche de Nutrition, Bratislava, Slovaquie write that reactive oxygen species (ROS) are regarded as mediators of inflammation in ulcerative colitis and that antioxid1
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Issue 37
FORTES and colleagues, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy studied whether supplemental vitamin A, zinc or both increased immune response in an elderly population .
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Issue 37
VAN DE VIJVER and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, TNO Nutrition and Food Research Institute, Zeist, The Netherlands. VandeVijver@Voeding.TNO.NL. review (88 references) th1
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Issue 37
ROTH, Department of Experimental Surgery, University Medical School of Pecs, Hungary write that reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implicated in various pathological processes.
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Issue 36
NG and colleagues, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK write that in diabetic nephropathy and hypertension, cardiovascular disease is a major cause of mortality and that low antioxida1
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Issue 36
WEISBURGER, American Health Foundation, Valhalla, New York 10595-1599, USA. John_Weisburger@nymc.edu. writes that over the past 30 years, research investigating nutrition and chron1
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Issue 36
CHENG and colleagues, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA studied the relationship of nutritional factors to lead accumulation in the body in men aged 49-93 years.
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Issue 36
VATASSERY and colleagues, GRECC, VA Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55417 USA studied the association of alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E) concentrations and Parkinson's disease.