The link between genome instability and adverse health outcomes during the various stages of life, such as infertility, fetal development and cancer, is briefly reviewed against a background of evidence indicating that genome instability, in the absence of overt exposure to genotoxins, is itself a sensitive marker of nutritional deficiency. The latter is illustrated with cross-sectional and die...

AIMS To investigate the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency among lactating women in a poor urban population of Bangladesh, and to examine the relationship between various factors and vitamin A status. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Maternal and child health clinic in Dhaka City, Bangladesh. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 120 lactating women aged 17-37 years were randomly selected ...

BACKGROUND The 2011 Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for vitamin D use 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] concentrations to define vitamin D deficiency (<30 nmol/L), the Estimated Average Requirement (40 nmol/L), and the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA; 50 nmol/L). The Canadian population has not yet been assessed according to these recommendations. OBJECTIVE We determined the prevalence of mee...

To investigate the relationship between folate status and dietary folate intake in the Taiwanese elderly, we analyzed plasma folate levels and dietary folate intake in 725 males and 705 females aged 65-90 years, sampled from the Elderly Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan (1999-2000) (Elderly NAHSIT). Results showed that the mean plasma folate levels were 22.9+/-1.4 nmol/L (10.1+/-0.6 ng/ml) ...

The recently released Recommended Dietary Allowance of vitamin C for women, 75 mg daily, was based on data for men. We now report results of a depletion-repletion study with healthy young women hospitalized for 186 +/- 28 days, using vitamin C doses of 30-2,500 mg daily. The relationship between dose and steady-state plasma concentration was sigmoidal. Only doses above 100 mg were beyond the li...

The relationship between infoonation technology and business performance has been a focus of IS research in rccent years. However. few soUd results have been found as of yet which empirieally link them together. Sorne problems rcmain with the definition and measurement of rr. organizational perfonnance and "fit" between technology and ocganizational strategy. Thus stronger empirical evidence is...

We examined seven 1-d diet records kept during 1 y by 272 men and women instructed to follow a lipid-lowering diet while participating in a clinical trial of pravastatin, a new 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor. The mean percentage of calories from total fat and saturated, unsaturated, and monounsaturated fatty acids was similar throughout the year even though ...

21 As intra-thyroidal iodine stores should be maximised before conception to facilitate the increased 22 thyroid-hormone production of pregnancy, women who may become pregnant should ideally consume 23 150 µg iodine/day [US Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA)]. As few UK data exist in this 24 population group, our aim was to assess iodine intake and status in women of childbearing age in a 25 c...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between nutritional status and dietary intake in patients with cystic fibrosis. METHODS Cross-sectional study involving 85 cystic fibrosis patients between 6 and 18 years of age. Dietary intake was evaluated by the 3-day diet record (weighing the food consumed). The outcome measures were the following nutritional status indicators: weight/height (W/H%) ...

Malnutrition is pervasive in India, affecting large sections of the population. It includes primary energy protein malnutrition and micro nutrient deficiencies. Apart from malnutrition children in India usually suffer from other deficiency diseases and sometimes face death due to some specific diseases. The importance of nutrition during pre-school years has recently been realized all over the ...