Serum and Skin Carotenoid Levels in Older Adults with and Without Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Susan Veldheer, Dongxiao Sun, Polly S Montgomery, Ming Wang, Xue Wu, Menglu Liang, Susan George, Andrew W Gardner

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Article in Nutrients, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Susan VeldheerDepartment of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6592-9249

Dongxiao SunDepartment of Pharmacology, Mass Spectrometry Core Facilities, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4902-4292

Polly S MontgomeryDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Ming WangDepartment of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9977-7041

Xue WuDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Menglu LiangDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.

Susan GeorgeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Andrew W GardnerDepartment of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA 17033, USA.

Funding

NIH HHS 1KL2TR002015-23NIH HHS 1UL1TR002014-23

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Indexed as

CarotenoidsMetabolic SyndromeSkinAgedbeta CaroteneBiomarkersCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleFruitHumansLycopeneMaleMiddle AgedVegetablesalpha-carotenebeta CaroteneBiomarkersCarotenoidsLycopenecardiovascular diseasefruit and vegetable intakemetabolic syndromeserum carotenoidsskin carotenoids

Identifiers

PMID41097127

DOI10.3390/nu17193049

PMCPMC12526450

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