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11276923

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-3-29
pubmed:abstractText
The objective of this study was to determine the associations of age and sex with plasma vitamin C (vit C) concentration taking into account smoking habits and the presence of age-related pathologies, such as diabetes. The POLA study is a population-based study on age-related eye diseases and their risk factors, and plasma Vitamin C evaluation is part of the biological parameters measured in the 1987 volunteer subjects living in Sète (South of France) and aged more than 60 years. Men had lower average plasma vit C levels than women (31.6 microM.L-1 versus 40.3 microM.L-1, p = 0.001). Plasma vit C was stable as a function of age in women but decreased in men (p = 0.02), enhancing the difference in vit C concentration between men and women with advancing age. Smoking more than 10 cigarettes a day was associated to a lower plasma vit C concentration in men (p = 0.001) but not in women, and diabetic subjects tended to have lower vit C concentrations, the difference being significant only in women (p = 0.003). We conclude that there is a clear influence of sex on plasma vit C. This difference may be due to dietary habits, or metabolism, but may also be due to different sensitivity of age, smoking and to some pathologies.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0300-9831
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
71
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
53-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-2-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Associations of age, smoking habits and diabetes with plasma vitamin C of elderly of the POLA study.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, 75231 Paris.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article