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The trace element selenium is of considerable interest due to its toxic and nutritional properties, which markedly differ according to the dose and the chemical...

Recent evidence from laboratory and epidemiologic studies has shed a different light on selenium health effects and its recommended range of environmental...

BACKGROUND AND AIM :

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected the world's population in the last two years. Along with non-pharmacological public health i...

Background: Cadmium exposure has been associated with increased diabetes risk in several studies, though there is still considerable debate about the magnitude...

Nutrients. 2021 Aug 1;13(8):2681. doi: 10.3390/nu13082681. PMID: 34444841; PMCID: PMC8401684

Background and aims: Experimental and non-experimental human studies have consistently shown a positive association between exposure to the trace element...

Accumulating evidence from both experimental and nonexperimental human studies in the last 15 years indicates that exposure to high levels of the trace element...

Background: The relationship between dietary sodium intake and blood pressure (BP) has been tested in clinical trials and nonexperimental human studies...

Background: Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal that has been implicated in breast cancer etiology, albeit with inconsistent results.

Objective: To investigate...

Some studies have reported an association between overexposure to selenium and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a rare degenerative disease of motor...

Background: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s dementia. Whereas the exact etiology of PD remains unknown...

Aluminum and tin are ubiquitous in the environment. In normal biological systems, however, they are present only in trace amounts and have no recognized...