background: exercise increases the generation of oxygen free radicals and lipid peroxidation that cause oxidative damage and result in muscle injury. vitamin c and, especially, vitamin e are shown to decrease the exercise-induced increase in the rate of lipid peroxidation. the aim of this study was to study antioxidant vitamins intake in athlete women who participant in sport saloon in two regi...

backgrounds: vitamin d deficiency is a public health concern even in sunny areas, so we decided to assess the prevalence of vitamin d deficiency and its related factors among university students in shiraz. methods: this cross‑sectional study was carried out on 254 (128 male and 126 female) university students. demographic questionnaires and a questionnaire on exposure to sun light and sun prote...

Reports of hypovitaminosis D among adults in the United States have drawn attention to the vitamin D status of children. National data on hypovitaminosis D among children are not yet available. Reports from 2000 and 2001 of rickets among children living in North Carolina, Texas, Georgia, and the mid-Atlantic region, however, confirmed the presence of vitamin D deficiency among some US children ...

OBJECTIVES To calculate the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in subjects aged 85 years old and to study the relationship between some common geriatric evaluation scales and vitamin D status. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING A community-based study. PARTICIPANTS 312 subjects aged 85 years old. MEASUREMENTS Geriatric assessment was based on comorbidity, functional status according ...

OBJECTIVE To review and analyse criteria for vitamin supplementation and fortification in Spain. DESIGN Systematic review of scientific literature and simulation analysis of food fortification. METHODS A simulation analysis using a fortified beverage was performed in a random sample of 2855 children aged 2 to 24 years in Spain. RESULTS High-risk groups for vitamin supplementation and fort...

The effects of vitamins C and E on layer chickens transported by road for 6 h during the hot dry season were investigated. Two experimental groups consisting of thirty Shika Brown layers were separately administered vitamins C and E orally just before transportation, while another 30 layers, which were only given sterile water, served as control. Blood samples analyzed before and after transpor...

Ubiquinone was first observed in the organs of vitamin A-deficient rats (Festenstein, Heaton, Lowe & Morton, 1955)~ and Morton and his co-workers have shown that vitamin A deficiency leads to the accumulation of both ubiquinone and its cyclic isomer, ubichromenol, in the liver of the rat (see, for example, Heaton, Lowe & Morton, 1957; Morton & Phillips, 1959). In an attempt to ascertain whether...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of a single large oral dose of vitamin A in treating acute shigellosis in children in Bangladesh. DESIGN Randomised double blind controlled clinical trial. SETTING Dhaka Hospital, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh. SUBJECTS 83 children aged 1-7 years with bacteriologically proved shigellosis but no clinical signs of vitamin...

Vitamin A deficiency is widely prevalent amongst women and children in India. The aim of the study is to study the effect of supplementation of micronutrient fortified biscuits on serum total proteins and vitamin A levels of adolescent girls (n = 46, 10-16 years) studying in a government school in Jaipur city, India. The study was designed to be an intervention study. The intervention was with ...

Vitamin A deficiency in its subclinical form is a world health problem in young children. The problem is probably under recognized in the United States and other developed countries who do not normally consider their citizens to be malnourished. Lack of a simple screening test to measure subclinical deficiency adds to this problem. Consequently, focused dietary assessment of vitamin A intake by...