Background The ability of oxidized LDL (oxLDL) to stimulate leukocyte–endothelium interaction is considered to be an important aspect of its proatherogenic action. Using intravital fluorescence microscopy in the dorsal skinfold…
Effective correction of hyperhomocysteinemia in hemodialysis patients by intravenous folinic acid and pyridoxine therapy. Background: Folic acid supplementation is only partially efficacious in correcting moderate elevation of plasma total homocysteine…
An average of 3481 preschool-age rural Indonesian children were re-examined every 3 months for 18 months. The mortality rate among children with mild xerophthalmia (night blindness and/or Bitot's spots) was…
Reported are estimates of the prevalence in developing countries of physiologically significant vitamin A deficiency and the number of attributable deaths. The WHO classification of countries by the severity and…