This monograph, authored by leading investigators in the field of cardiovascular research and practicing clinicians across the globe, details the scientific evidence for the health effect of vitamins, antioxidants, trace elements and functional food, specifically their role in the cardiovascular system and provides up-to-date recommendations in the area of cardiovascular nutrition including dietary micronutrients and supplements. Genetics of coronary disease as well as racial differences and risk factors, the role of homocystine dietary fats, importance of antioxidant trace elements, genetic and racial differences especially in relation to cardiovascular effects, clinical relevance of trace elements and minerals such as chromium, copper, fluoride, iron, iodine, molybdenum, manganese, selenium, zinc, calcium, magnesium and phosphorous have all been covered in relation to cardiovascular disease.
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Free Radicals and Antioxidants: Partially reduced forms of oxygen including superoxide anion, hydroxyl radical, nitric oxide and hydrogen peroxide and other radical based reactive species such as hypochlorous acid can cause structural alterations of DNA, membrane lipid peroxidation, modifications to the enzyme structure, depolymerization of polysaccharides and finally impose an extensive damage to cause cell dysfunction and death (Halliwell, 1996). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acute magnesium deficiency, serum lycopene levels, sphericity index, lipid peroxidation levels, kidney stone disease, hypercholesterolemic atherosclerosis, placebo supplementation, enzyme gene polymorphism, lycopene intake, diene conjugates, vanadium compounds, human heart disease, antioxidant reserve, cardiovascular injury, blood pressure variability, conventional risk factors, left ventricular remodeling, smooth muscle contractility, arrhythmic death, angiotensinogen gene, heart rate variability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Nutr, Acad Sci, Asian Indians, Clin Invest, New York, Thromb Haemost, Arterioscler Thromb Vase Biol, Diab Care, Hum Genet, Indian Heart Journal, Mol Cell Biochem, United States, Arch Biochem Biophys, Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, Free Radic Biol Med, Journal of Nutrition, Nutr Res, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, Clin Chem, Diabetes Care, Lipid Res, Mol Aspects Med, Mol Cell Cardiol, Study Group, Ann Intern Med New!
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Free Radicals and Antioxidants: Partially reduced forms of oxygen including superoxide anion, hydroxyl radical, nitric oxide and hydrogen peroxide and other radical based reactive species such as hypochlorous acid can cause structural alterations of DNA, membrane lipid peroxidation, modifications to the enzyme structure, depolymerization of polysaccharides and finally impose an extensive damage to cause cell dysfunction and death (Halliwell, 1996). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acute magnesium deficiency, serum lycopene levels, sphericity index, lipid peroxidation levels, kidney stone disease, hypercholesterolemic atherosclerosis, placebo supplementation, enzyme gene polymorphism, lycopene intake, diene conjugates, vanadium compounds, human heart disease, antioxidant reserve, cardiovascular injury, blood pressure variability, conventional risk factors, left ventricular remodeling, smooth muscle contractility, arrhythmic death, angiotensinogen gene, heart rate variability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Clin Nutr, Acad Sci, Asian Indians, Clin Invest, New York, Thromb Haemost, Arterioscler Thromb Vase Biol, Diab Care, Hum Genet, Indian Heart Journal, Mol Cell Biochem, United States, Arch Biochem Biophys, Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, Free Radic Biol Med, Journal of Nutrition, Nutr Res, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, Clin Chem, Diabetes Care, Lipid Res, Mol Aspects Med, Mol Cell Cardiol, Study Group, Ann Intern Med New!
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- Heart Failure (The Iowa School of Letters award for short fiction) by Ivy Goodman on page 146
- Heart Rate Variability by Marek Malik on page 277
- Clinical Medicine, 2e by Harry L. Greene II MD on page 220
- Human Nutrition and Dietetics by J. S. Garrow MD PhD FRCP FRCP(Edin) on page 202
- Thrombosis and Hemorrhage (THROMBOSIS & HEMORRHAGE) by Joseph Loscalzo on page 140
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