4 results match your criteria: "INRAN-National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition[Affiliation]"
Mediation of psychosocial determinants in the relation between socio-economic status and adolescents' diet quality.
Eur J Nutr
April 2018
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185-4K3, 9000, Ghent, Belgium.
Purpose: To examine the underlying reasons for the positive relation between socio-economic status (SES) and the diet quality of adolescents.
Methods: In 2081 adolescents (12.5-17.
Comparison of definitions for the metabolic syndrome in adolescents. The HELENA study.
Eur J Pediatr
February 2017
Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Article Synopsis
- - This study compares five different definitions of metabolic syndrome in adolescents, analyzing a sample of 1004 teenagers from the HELENA study to assess prevalence and classification accuracy.
- - Findings indicate that the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in adolescents varies between 1.6% and 3.8% depending on the definition used, with the modified NCEP-ATP and AHA definitions showing the least misclassification.
- - The research concludes that the definitions do not consistently classify the same adolescents as having metabolic syndrome, highlighting the need for standardization in diagnostic methods for this age group.
Antioxidant Properties of Seeds from Lines of Artichoke, Cultivated Cardoon and Wild Cardoon.
Antioxidants (Basel)
June 2013
CRA-Ex INRAN (National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition), Via Ardeatina 546, Rome 00178, Italy.
The artichoke (Cynara cardunculus L. subsp. scolymus L.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe effect of chitosan and other polycations on tight junction permeability in the human intestinal Caco-2 cell line(1).
J Nutr Biochem
March 2002
INRAN-National Research Institute on Food and Nutrition, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178, Roma, Italy
Chitosan is a polycationic compound widely employed as dietary supplement and also present in pharmaceutical preparations. Although it has been approved for human consumption, its possible side effects have not been widely investigated and the available data in the literature are still controversial. Several polycationic substances have been shown to affect tight junction permeability in epithelial cell models in vitro.
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