Diminished Serum Concentration of Vitamin E in Alcoholics
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism
- Vol. 32 (2) , 56-61
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000177408
Abstract
The effect of heavy alcohol consumption on serum concentrations of vitamin E (α-tocopherol) and selenium was studied in 13 alcoholics and 19 control subjects. Ethanol intake during the year previous to the study was in the range from 22 to 354 g/day and from 0 to 16 g/day among the alcoholics and controls, respectively. Of the 13 alcoholics, 6 had a serum concentration of α-tocopherol below the lower limit of reference (14 µmol/l) and mean serum concentration of α-tocopherol was reduced by 37% as compared to controls (pKeywords
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