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Research Updates: nutrition
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Issue 56
AYAORI and colleagues, First Department of Internal Medicine, National Defence Medical College, Saitama, Japan. Ayaori@med5.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp reported on the levels and status of plasma 1
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Issue 55
EGGER and colleagues, School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. eggergj@ozemail.com.au review the evidence (69 references) regarding the effectiveness of non-pre1
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Issue 55
MARTIN and colleagues, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111 USA. amartin@hnrc.tufts.edu studied the effects of diet and vitamins1
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Issue 55
TORNWALL and colleagues, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland studied the association between dietary/lifestyle factors and intermittent claudication (severe pain in calves due to lack of blood supply).
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Issue 55
ELMADFA and PARK, Institute of Nutritional Science, University of Vienna, Austria. Ernaehrungswissenschaften@uni.vie.ac at compared the effects of corn oil and olive/1
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Issue 55
CRAIG and colleagues, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109 USA studied how days with atypical food intake affect estimates of usual nutrient intake from 4-day food records.
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Issue 54
SINCLAIR, Green Valley Health, Hagerstown, MD 21742 USA reviews (68 references) environmental and nutritional factors involved in male infertility.
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Issue 54
VALKONEN and KUUSI, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland studied whether the acute atherogenic effects of secondhand cigarette smoke could be prevented by the effective free radical scavenger, vitamin C.
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Issue 53
MA and colleagues, Department of Nutritional Science and Dietetics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, and Department of Nutrition, Arizona State University, Tempe write that cigarette smoking is a major risk factor for several chronic oxidative diseases1
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Issue 53
CHRISTEN and colleagues, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA USA assessed the benefits and risks of supplementation with beta-carotene, vitamin E, vitamin C and multivitamins upon cancer, cardio1
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Issue 53
PRYOR, The Biodynamics Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803 USA. wpryor@LSU.edu reviews (244 references!) the evidence regarding the effects of vitamin E on heart disease, comprising basic science, animal studies, epidemiological an1
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Issue 52
GRUNDMAN, Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative study, 9500 Gilman Drive 0949, La Jolla CA 92093-0949 USA. mgrundman@ucsd.edu writes that a considerable amount of evidence suggests that oxidative stres1
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Issue 52
LYKKESFELDT and colleagues, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley CA USA write that lack of reliable dietary data has hampered the ability to distinguish between effects of smoking and diet on pla1
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Issue 51
ZHANG and colleagues, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, SE-141 86, Sweden write that cigarette smoking is associated with marked acute changes in microcirculation, including
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Issue 51
WRIGHT and colleagues, Department of Nutrition, Diet, and Health, Institute of Food Research, Norwich UK write that polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are highly susceptible to attack by free radicals . I1
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Issue 51
BOOMERSHINE and colleagues, Trident Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29406 USA. kelliehage@aol.com review (27 references) the efficacy of vitamin E in the treatment of tardive dyskinesia (TD) .
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Issue 50
HEMILA and colleagues, Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Finland studied the association of vitamin C intake and risk of tuberculosis .
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Issue 50
COWAN and colleagues, School of Dentistry, The Queens University of Belfast, Royal Victoria Hospital, Northern Ireland write that although the antioxidant status of a person is thought to be important in the development 1
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Issue 50
WEBER, F Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Vitamins and Fine Chemicals Division, Human Nutrition and Health, Basel, Switzerland reviews (41 references) the main role vitamins are believed to play in the preventio1
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Issue 49
PACKER and colleagues, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720-3200 USA. packer@socrates.berkeley.edu. write that there is increased interest in the biological activities of plant extracts fro1
