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| Vitamin and mineral supplements for preventing infections in older people | | Author(s) | Salah Gariballa |
| Journal title | British Medical Journal, vol 331, no 7512, 6 August 2005 |
| Pages | pp 304-305 |
| Source | http://www.bmj.com |
| Keywords | Vitamins ; Diet ; Infectious diseases ; Preventative medicine. |
| Annotation | Vitamin and mineral supplements may benefit older people with increased risk of infections and those with evidence of vitamin deficiencies. Improved diet and physical activity, though, will do more good. This short article serves as an introduction to Alison Avenell and colleagues' results of their morbidity from infections in older people (MAVIS trial), reported elsewhere in this issue of the British Medical Journal. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050906222 A |
| Classmark | CFE: CFD: CJA: LK2 * |
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