Vitamin A Supplements

Vitamin/trace mineral supplements for the elderly.

The fraction of population that is elderly has been increasing, as has the consumption of vitamin/trace mineral supplements, which is now a multibillion dollar industry. Yet the rationale for such supplement intake by the majority may be questioned. Some of the current recommendations for micronutrient intake by the elderly are extrapolations from recommendations made for younger adults, wherea...

Antioxidant vitamin supplements and cardiovascular disease.

The American Heart Association (AHA) has had a longstanding commitment to provide information about the role of nutrition in cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk reduction. Many activities have been and are currently directed toward this objective, including issuing AHA Dietary Guidelines periodically (most recently in 20001) and Science Advisories and Statements on an ongoing basis to review emer...

Vitamin D Supplements in the Indian Market

It is now known that vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide health problem. In our country, as food fortification is lacking, supplementation with pharmaceutical preparations is the only means of treatment of vitamin D deficiency. We aimed to study the composition and availability of various vitamin D preparations in the Indian market, data about which was collected from annual drug compendium. Th...

Vitamin supplements and mortality in older people.

Vitamin Supplements Improve a Model Form of Muscular Dystrophy

A contracting muscle cell exerts enough force to rip itself apart in the process. That it doesn’t do so is because of the strong connections it makes between its internal cytoskeleton and the external extracellular matrix (ECM). The main extracellular connector is laminin, which lies in the basement membrane (the part of the ECM closest to the cell) and links at one end to the bulk ECM and at i...