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Vitamins are organic micronutrients which are substances that must be present in small quantities and that are essential for the growth and development of the human body and are required in numerous metabolic reactions to maintain homeostasis.
Leblanc, Jean Guy Joseph +1 more
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Which circulating antioxidant vitamins are confounded by socioeconomic deprivation? The MIDSPAN family study [PDF]
<p><b>Background:</b> Antioxidant vitamins are often described as having “independent” associations with risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality.
Welsh, P +31 more
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BackgroundA recent WHO review concluded that live BCG and measles vaccine (MV) may have beneficial non-specific effects (NSEs) reducing mortality from non-targeted diseases. NSEs of oral polio vaccine (OPV) were not examined. If OPV vaccination campaigns
Andreas Andersen +12 more
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Healthy Start vitamins—a missed opportunity:findings of a multimethod study [PDF]
Objective To evaluate and provide a real-life view of the operation of the Healthy Start vitamins scheme.Setting The study took place in primary care and community settings that served rural, urban and ethnically diverse populations, in two sentinel ...
Green, Josephine M. +5 more
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Objectives. Recent prospective studies have found the associations between type 1 diabetes (T1D) and vitamin D deficiency. We investigated the role of vitamin D in the regulation of 25OHD-1α-hydroxylase (CYP27B1) and VDR expression in different tissues ...
Anna Mazanova +5 more
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High dose vitamin A capsules – Rusty bullets?
High-dose vitamin A capsules (HDVAC) are distributed to preschool children in low-income countries on the assumption that they reduce mortality and treat vitamin A deficiency.
Ane B Fisker, Ted Greiner
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The use of elder marc in the food industry
The article describes the varieties of elderberry, and the process of black elderberry fruits ripening. External characteristics of flowers, followed by ripening of fruits, have been described.
L. Ch. Burak
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A tremendous amount of information was published over the past decades in relation to the role of vitamins in various neoplastic diseases. In particular, several studies showed an inverse relationship between selected vitamins intake and cancer risk.
Russo, Irene +2 more
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Background: We examined the introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) and oral polio vaccine (OPV) in an urban community in Guinea-Bissau in the early 1980s.
Søren Wengel Mogensen +4 more
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Background. The composition of preparations, intended for pregnant women is an important issue of proper dietary supplementation. The range of such products on the market is very wide and their composition is not regulated by law. Objectives.
Regina Wierzejska
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