Supplement users have better vitamin D status, and parenting is key to promoting a child's healthy behaviours. We examined the association of parental encouragement of and caring about healthy lifestyles with children's use of vitamin D supplements and multivitamins. A provincially representative sample of grade 5 students (n = 2686; 10-11 years) and their parents across the province of Alberta...

BACKGROUND Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use, including herbals and multivitamin supplements, is quite common in the U.S., and has been shown to be highest in breast cancer survivors. However, limited data are currently available for CAM usage among African Americans. Thus, we sought to determine the prevalence of multivitamins, folic acid and herbal supplement usage in African A...

In recent years, there have been numerous multivitamin advertising on television, magazines, and other print media. Data from the third quarter of 2013 revealed that purchases in pharmaceutical business, including medicines, are tier. The research objective was to identify percentage Tojo Una-Una Regency people who consume multivitamins, sources media frequently use as Multivitamin informati...

Abstract: This study aimed to evaluate effectiveness of the chick cardiomyocyte micromass (MM) system for prediction of teratogenecity of common environmental factors and prevention of such effects by addition of multivitamins. White Leghorn 5-day-old embryo hearts were dissected and disassociate to produce a cardiomyocyte cell suspension in Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium. The cultures were...

High multivitamin (HV) content in gestational diets has long-term metabolic effects in rat offspring. These changes are associated with in utero modifications of gene expression in hypothalamic food intake regulation. However, the role of fat-soluble vitamins in mediating these effects has not been explored. Vitamin A is a plausible candidate due to its role in gene methylation. Vitamin A intak...

BACKGROUND Adherence problems with coitally dependent, female-initiated HIV prevention methods have contributed to several trials' failure to establish efficacy. Continuous use of a cervical barrier with once-daily cleaning and immediate reinsertion may simplify use for women and improve adherence. We assessed the acceptability and safety of precoital and continuous use of the Duet, a cervical ...

Objective: The objective of present study was to assess the treatment pattern in COVID-19 patients. Methods: a hospital-based prospective observational conducted Government Medical College Kathua (UT Jammu and Kashmir) on positive confirmed cases from December 2020 January 2021. Consent taken patients who were willing participate study. details presenting complaints received by them outcome man...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether the risk for birth defects associated with maternal diabetes is attenuated by use of multivitamin supplements during the periconceptional period. METHODS In the population-based Atlanta Birth Defects Case-Control Study, we identified case infants who had nonsyndromic birth defects that were reported to be associated with diabetes (n = 3278) and were born during 1...

BACKGROUND Restenosis remains the major limitation of coronary angioplasty. Coronary stents have reduced the incidence of restenosis in selected patients with relatively large vessels. No strategies to date have demonstrated a beneficial effect in vessels < 3.0 mm in diameter. We have shown in the MultiVitamins and Probucol (MVP) Trial that probucol, a potent antioxidant, reduces restenosis aft...

Key research findings relative to the question of whether maternal use of folic acid before and during pregnancy reduces the chance that offspring will be born with a congenital heart defect or an orofacial cleft are reviewed in this paper. Observational studies in general support an association between maternal use of multivitamins containing folic acid and a reduction in the occurrence of con...