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Vitamin D deficiency may increase rejection rates in lung transplant patients
3 May 2012
According to a new US study, low blood vitamin D levels seem to be associated with increased rejection and infections after lung transplantation.
30 March 2016
Between late 2005 and April 2007, the Dietary Survey Unit of the French Food Safety Agency (Afssa) conducted the second individual and national food consumption survey (INCA 2). This study followed the first INCA study, conducted in 1998–1999.
INCA 2 involved 2,624 adults (18–79 years old) and 1,455 children (3–17 years old). The participants recorded their food and supplement intake over seven days, answered a questionnaire to evaluate their physical activity level, sedentary behavior, and their food supplement consumption over the past 12 months.
Thus, the INCA 2 study results provide a very detailed food consumption database on an individual level on people living in mainland France, essential for health and nutritional risk assessment.
Results
Additional analyses will determine how often recommended intake levels of vitamins and minerals are not met or are exceeded, by taking into account intakes from food supplements on the one hand and fortified and unfortified foods on the other.
Reference
Afssa, Étude INCA 2, 2006-07. www.afssa.fr/Documents/PASER-Sy-INCA2.pdf
3 May 2012
According to a new US study, low blood vitamin D levels seem to be associated with increased rejection and infections after lung transplantation.
20 March 2015
A new US study reports that increased intakes of omega-3 fatty acids seem to reduce to risk of normal-weighted women to develop cancer of the lining of the uterus.
8 August 2012
Older adults with low of vitamin D – especially those who are frail – may have a greatly increased risk of death, a new US study suggests.