Background Older adults are reported to have sub-optimal B vitamin status; targeted food-based solutions may help to address this. The objectives of the OptiAge food intervention study were to develop and investigate the effectiveness of a B vitamin ...
Maria Heffernan +11 more
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Interactions between vitamin B2, the MTRR rs1801394 and MTR rs1805087 genetic polymorphisms, and colorectal cancer risk in a Korean population [PDF]
OBJECTIVES We explored whether the association between vitamin B2 and colorectal cancer (CRC) risk could be modified by the MTRR rs1801394 and MTR rs1805087 genetic polymorphisms and examined whether the interaction effects are sex-specific.
Madhawa Gunathilake +7 more
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Serum vitamin D levels in high-risk HPV infected patients, is there any relation? [PDF]
Objective: Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a sexually transmittable virus and is the main etiologic cause of uterine cervical cancers. Beyond that, vitamin D is a steroid structured lipid-soluble vitamin, enhancing both humoral and cellular immune ...
Anil Turhan Cakir, Muhammet Atay Ozten
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Vitamin D with calcium reduces mortality: patient level pooled analysis of 70,528 patients from eight major vitamin D trials. [PDF]
Introduction: Vitamin D may affect multiple health outcomes. If so, an effect on mortality is to be expected. Using pooled data from randomized controlled trials, we performed individual patient data (IPD) and trial level meta-analyses to assess ...
Salovaara, K. +80 more
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Stable isotope dilution techniques for assessing vitamin A status and bioefficacy of provitamin A carotenoids in humans. [PDF]
Vitamin A deficiency is a major global public health problem. Among the variety of techniques that are available for assessing human vitamin A status, evaluating the provitamin A nutritional values of foodstuffs and estimating human vitamin A ...
Judy D Ribaya-Mercado +19 more
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Effectiveness of the National Program of Complementary Feeding for older adults in Chile on vitamin B12 status in older adults; secondary outcome analysis from the CENEX Study (ISRCTN48153354). [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Older people are at increased risk of vitamin B12 deficiency and the provision of fortified foods may be an effective way to ensure good vitamin B12 status in later life.
Sánchez Reyes, Hugo +15 more
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Hyperhomocysteinemia in pediatric β-thalassemia: links to vitamin cofactor deficiencies and oxidative stress [PDF]
Background Homocysteine metabolism is crucial to maintaining vascular and metabolic homeostasis, yet its dysregulation in pediatric β-thalassemia major (β-TM) remains poorly understood.
Arzu Dadashova +4 more
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The effects of maternal and infant vitamin A supplementation on vitamin A status: a randomised trial in Kenya. [PDF]
Postpartum vitamin A supplementation of mothers and infants is recommended, but the efficacy has been questioned. In this double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, Kenyan mother-infant pairs were randomised to maternal vitamin A (400,000 IU) or placebo 0 ...
D. L. Mwaniki +29 more
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Vitamin D supplementation in patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 on different therapeutic regimens : a one-year prospective study [PDF]
Background Little or no research has determined the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation in conjunction with pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches in the diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) patients. The objective of this study was to determine
Majed S Alokail +17 more
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Background. Vitamins В6 В12 and folic acid (FA) therapy to reduce cardiovascular risk appears to be unreasonable. Negative results of recent large-scale trials might be due to high daily doses of the vitamins and widespread FA fortification programmes ...
O. O. Shakhmatova +6 more
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