Food behavior and folate status of hill-tribe schoolchildren and women of childbearing age on the northern border of Thailand.

An insight into the folate nutritional status of the population is important from a public health perspective. The protective effect of folate against neural tube defects (NTDs) is widely recognized. To assess the health and nutritional status, especially folate status, of vulnerable hill-tribe groups, a cross-sectional study was conducted on 197 schoolchildren and 136 women of childbearing age in Chaloem Phra Kiat District, Nan Province, Thailand.

Platelet fatty acids in coronary heart disease, dyslipidemia, hypertension and healthy controls.

A cross-sectional study was performed to investigate 250 volunteers from Pramongkutklao Hospital, Samphanthawong district, Wat Chaiyapreukmala and Wat Pradoo in Taling Chan district. They were divided into groups of 35 apparently healthy males, 16 males with coronary heart disease, 37 males with dyslipidemia and 9 males with hypertension with age ranges of 24-62, 56-69, 25-69 and 26-75 years, respectively. The female groups were composed of 55 apparently healthy females, 10 females with coronary heart disease, 73 females with dyslipidemia and 15 females with hypertension with age ranges of 27-65, 33-67, 22-73 and 38-70 years, respectively.

Lipid composition of serum lipoprotein in opisthorchiasis.

Lipid composition (i.e. total cholesterol, free cholesterol, cholesteryl ester, triglycerides and phospholipids) in the individual serum lipoprotein fractions (i.

Pyridoxine status in preschool children in northeast Thailand: a community survey.

Pyridoxine status was investigated in four hundred and twenty-four village preschool children aged 1-60 months in Khon Kaen, and Nakorn Rachseema, Northeast Thailand using the erythrocyte aspartate aminotransferase (EAST) test and pyridoxal-5-phosphate activation coefficient (AC). Twenty-two percent of the children had pyridoxine deficiency, of which 15 percent had an AC greater than or equal to 3.37 and 7 percent had border-line deficiency (AC between 3.

Measurements of B1, B2, B6 status in children and their mothers attending a well-baby clinic in Bangkok.

The status of thiamin, riboflavin and pyridoxine in 717 healthy children aged 1-60 months and 569 mothers aged 16-45 years attending a well-baby clinic in Bangkok were determined by using the erythrocyte enzymes, transketolase, glutathione oxidoreductase, aspartate aminotransferase and measuring the degree of stimulation with the coenzymes thiamin pyrophosphate, flavin adenine dinucleotide and pyridoxal phosphate respectively. Cut-off points for the upper limit of the normal ranges for the respective activation coefficients were established from the data obtained.