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1. Among the water-soluble vitamins, dietary intakes of vitamins C, B₂ and folate are associated with the reduced risk of diabetes in Japanese women but not men

Author:
Eshak, Ehab S.; Iso, Hiroyasu; Muraki, Isao; Tamakoshi, Akiko
Source:
The British journal of nutrition 2019 v.121 no.12 pp. 1357-1364
ISSN:
1475-2662
Subject:
Japanese people; antioxidant activity; ascorbic acid; body mass index; folic acid; food intake; men; noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus; prospective studies; protective effect; pyridoxine; regression analysis; riboflavin; risk; risk reduction; smoking (habit); thiamin; women
Abstract:
... Recent studies have shown that micronutrients are involved in the pathology of type 2 diabetes. Antioxidant effects of vitamins C and B₂ and homocysteine-lowering effects of vitamins B₆, folate and B₁₂ may have protective roles. However, a few reports have investigated the association between dietary water-soluble vitamin intakes and risk of diabetes. In a prospective study encompassing 19 168 hea ...
DOI:
10.1017/S000711451900062X