Current Projects
- Interaction of dietary antioxidants and oxidative stress in the development and progression of age-related lens opacification and macular degeneration.
- Impact of food folate fortification on folate status and total circulating homocysteine concentrations in adult Americans.
- Influence of whole grain consumption on metabolic markers of disease risk and incidence of diabetes.
- Role of body composition and estrogens in sex- and age-related differences in circulating homocysteine concentrations.
- Nutrient determinants of elevated homocysteine concentrations after a methionine load; efficacy of vitamin B6 supplementation in reducing the homocysteine response to a methionine load.
- Relationship between B vitamins, elevated homocysteine concentrations and age-related cognitive decline and dementia.
- Development of food composition tables for dietary flavonoids for the purpose of studying the link between flavonoids and diet-related disease risk.
- Obesity-associated morbidity, including vascular disease, hypertension, and diabetes, in established cohorts.
- Use of community-based dietary services by the elderly and its relationship to institutionalization deferral.
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