Current Issue April 2012, Vol. 7, No. 2

Issue Highlights

  • Feasibility of a protein-enriched diet after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: Results from a pilot intervention
    April 2012 (Vol. 7 | No. 2 | Pages e57-e63)

    Alison Dodsworth, Helen Warren-Forward, Surinder Baines

  • Nutritional effects on depressive symptoms in Parkinson’s disease patients
    April 2012 (Vol. 7 | No. 2 | Pages e64-e68)

    Tetsuhito Fukushima, Xiaodong Tan, Yunwen Luo, Puqing Wang, Jinhui Song, Hideyuki Kanda, Takehito Hayakawa, Takeyasu Kakamu, Masayoshi Tsuji

  • A double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, feasibility phase III clinical trial of peri-operative immune-enhancing enteral nutrition in patients undergoing surgery for advanced head and neck cancer
    17 May 2012

    Samit Ghosh, Ged Dempsey, Rachel Skelly, Richard J. Shaw, Simon N. Rogers, Derek Lowe, Terence M. Jones

  • Risk factors associated with gallstone disease in women
    07 May 2012

    Parvez I. Paracha, Yasmin Asif, Frank Vriesekoop, Shahid Ullah, Muhammad Abbas, Saima I. Paracha, Tariq Khan

  • Effect of supraphysiological concentration of serum folate on natural killer cell activity in healthy subjects
    19 March 2012

    Sandra Hirsch, Dante Miranda, Catalina Fuentes, Laura Leiva, Gladys Barrera, Margarita Montoya, Ana María Ronco, María Pía de la Maza, Daniel Bunout

  • Hypolipidemic and antioxidant effect of polyphenol-rich extracts from Moroccan thyme varieties
    13 March 2012

    Mhamed Ramchoun, Hicham Harnafi, Chakib Alem, Berthold Büchele, Thomas Simmet, Mustapha Rouis, Fouad Atmani, Souliman Amrani

  • Validation of a new index of body adiposity (BAI) to assess body fat in normal weight premenopausal Caucasian women
    12 March 2012

    Tomasz Miazgowski, Krzysztof Safranow, Agnieszka Major-Gołuch, Barbara Krzyżanowska-Świniarska

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