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Functions of Vitamins beyond Recommended Dietary Allowances: Proceedings of the European Academy of Nutritional Sciences Workshop, Nice, October 1997, Vol. 55 »

Authors: P. Walter (Editor), U. Moser (Editor), D. Hornig
ISBN-13: 9783805570732, ISBN-10: 3805570732
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Karger, S. Inc.
Date Published: January 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Preface
	Introduction and Objectives
	A Conceptual Approach for Scientifically Based Guidelines	1
	Dietary Reference Intakes: A New Approach to Setting Nutrition Standards in the USA and Canada	4
	Recommendations for Vitamin Intake in the European Union and the Use of Reference Values in Existing and Future Community Legislation	14
	Folic Acid and Neural Tube Defects	22
	Rationale for Risk Reduction of Cardiovascular Disease Using Homocysteine Concentration in Blood and Plasma as Biomarker: Support by Clinical Data	34
	Folate and Vitamin B[subscript 6] from Diet and Supplements in Relation to Risk of Coronary Heart Disease among Women	42
	Antioxidant Vitamins: Evidence from Biomarkers in Humans	46
	Synergistic Effects of Antioxidant Vitamins	68
	Antioxidants and Chronic Disease: Evidence from Observational Epidemiology	80
	Evidence from Intervention Studies	92
	Mechanisms of Vitamin-Mediated Anti-Inflammatory and Immunomodulatory Activity	135
	Vitamin E and Immune Response in the Aged	148
	Vitamin K and Tissue Mineralization	159
	Behavioural and Mental Functions	171
	Vitamins and Regulation of Gene Expression	177
	Folic Acid, Vitamins B[subscript 6] and B[subscript 12]: Relation to Homocysteine and Cardiovascular Disease	189
	Evidence of Folic Acid and Folate in the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects	192
	Functions of Antioxidant Vitamins beyond RDAs	196
	Vitamins and Immunocompetence	200
	Emerging Scientific Evidence, Vitamin K and Bone Metabolism: Effects of Vitamins on Behaviour and Cognition	206
	Author Index	209
	Subject Index	210