VITAMIN B 12 OR COBALAMIN DEFICIENCY occurs frequently (> 20%) among elderly people,
but it is often unrecognized because the clinical manifestations are subtle; they are also …

Background: Together with adiposity, plasma fatty acid (FA) composition can modulate the
development of the metabolic syndrome (MS). Objective: Our aim was to investigate the …

The efficacy of suppressing TSH secretion with levothyroxine (l-T 4 ) in reducing solitary
thyroid nodule growth is still controversial. In this prospective multicenter, randomized, double-…

… The authors would like to express their gratitude to Professor Marc Imler and Jean-Louis
Schlienger who initiated this work and to Helen Fothergill who kindly edited the English of this …

Background: Plant sterol (PS)-enriched foods have been shown to reduce plasma LDL-cholesterol
concentrations. In most studies, however, PSs were incorporated into food products …

Objective The objective of this study was to re-evaluate the adult C T reference values determined
by five different immunoassays and by introducing criteria for selecting control subjects…

Background: To date, only case reports or small studies have documented the syndrome of
food-cobalamin malabsorption in specific populations of patients or situations. In this paper, …

People with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of many complications, which are mainly
due to complex and interconnected mechanisms such as hyperglycemia, insulino-resistance, …

Restricted-calorie diets are the most worldwide used treatments for obesity. Although such
strategies are based on the first law of thermodynamics, the real life clinical practice …

We measured free thyroxine in sera from 29 women in the ninth month of pregnancy. We
used the reference method, equilibrium dialysis, and nine immunoassays. The bias between …