PLASMA VITAMIN A AND ITS CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE
| Autor: | Hans C. S. Aron |
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| Rok vydání: | 1949 |
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Vitamin
medicine.medical_specialty Human organism business.industry Dietary intake medicine.medical_treatment Carotene General Medicine Plasma chemistry.chemical_compound Well nourished Endocrinology chemistry Internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Blood plasma medicine Humans Clinical significance Vitamin A business |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Diseases of Children. 77:763 |
| ISSN: | 0096-8994 |
| DOI: | 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040778009 |
| Popis: | THE reliable methods for the determination of vitamin A in the blood plasma or serum has greatly contributed to the knowledge of the function of vitamin A in the human organism. During the past five years my associates and I have published certain studies on plasma vitamin A. 1 I wish to present here some of these results, together with other reports from the literature which, I believe, are of interest to the pediatrician. VITAMIN A IN THE HUMAN BODY The more our studies progressed the more it became evident that the plasma vitamin A is largely independent of the dietary intake of vitamin A or its precursor carotene. In several nutritional surveys, it was reported that the values for plasma vitamin A for well nourished persons are on a higher level than those for poorly nourished ones. 2 We observed that the plasma vitamin A values of persons from |
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