Objective The aim of this study was to investigate the association between anemia and vitamin A deficiency in women of childbearing age in Pernambuco, a state in the Brazilian Northeast. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted making a secondary database analysis of “The Third State Survey on Health and Nutrition” done from May to September 2006. Data were collected from 761 women of chil...

W E KNOW OF one function of vitamin A, that in vision, through the researches of Wald and his team. Through their work we know more about what this vitamin does in one particular biochemical reaction sequence than we do about any other fat-soluble vitamin. However, an animal dies of vitamin A deficiency, but not necessarily from blindness. Therefore, vitamin A must have another metabolic functi...

Oxidative stress has been implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Consequently, antioxidant therapies including Vitamin E (VitE) supplementation for both prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases currently appears to be a promising avenue of research. The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between AD and the ApoE phenotype, lipid parameters ...

background: the prevalence of vitamin d deficiency and its causative factors has been estimated more frequently in elder popula­tion, women, and patients with osteoporosis in different countries, but this issue is less defined in male population within different age groups especially in asian countries. therefore, we studied the role of effective factors in vitamin d defi­ciency and its prevale...

Ad dress for Cor res pon den ce Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz MD, Balıkesir Atatürk State Hospital, Clinic of Pediatric Endocrinology, Balıkesir, Turkey Phone: +90 266 221 35 10 E-mail: [email protected] ©Jo ur nal of Cli ni cal Re se arch in Pe di at ric En doc ri no logy, Pub lis hed by Ga le nos Pub lis hing. Dear Editor, The adequacy of vitamin D intake is necessary to optimize the bone heal...

BACKGROUND Sunlight exposure and high vitamin D status have been hypothesised to reduce the risk of developing dementia. The objective of our research was to determine whether lack of sunlight and hypovitaminosis D over time are associated with dementia. METHODS We systematically searched MEDLINE (via PubMed), Cochrane Library, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Web of Science, ICONDA, and reference lists of pe...