Nutrition Research
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 309-314 , May 2008

Total n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid intake is inversely associated with serum C-reactive protein in young Japanese women

  • Kentaro Murakami

      Affiliations

    • Nutritional Epidemiology Program, National Institutes of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Epidemiology and International Health, Research Institute, International Medical Center of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Satoshi Sasaki

      Affiliations

    • Nutritional Epidemiology Program, National Institutes of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology, School of Public Health, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
    • ,
  • Yoshiko Takahashi

      Affiliations

    • Nutritional Epidemiology Program, National Institutes of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Health and Nutrition, School of Home Economics, Wayo Women's University, Chiba, Japan
    • ,
  • Kazuhiro Uenishi

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Physiological Nutrition, Kagawa Nutrition University, Saitama, Japan
    • ,
  • Mitsuyo Yamasaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health and Nutrition Science, Faculty of Health and Social Welfare Science, Nishikyushu University, Saga, Japan
    • ,
  • Hitomi Hayabuchi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Environmental Science, Fukuoka Women's University, Fukuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Toshinao Goda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences and COE21, University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan
    • ,
  • Jun Oka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Food and Nutrition, Faculty of Home Economics, Tokyo Kasei University, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Keiko Baba

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, Mie Chukyo University Junior College, Mie, Japan
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  • Kazuko Ohki

      Affiliations

    • Graduate School of Science for Living System, Showa Women's University, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Kanako Muramatsu

      Affiliations

    • Course of Food and Nutrition, Department of Human Life Environments, Niigata Women's College, Niigata, Japan
    • ,
  • Yoshiko Sugiyama

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition Management, Faculty of Health and Nutrition, Minamikyushu University, Miyazaki, Japan

Received 4 July 2007 ,Revised 29 February 2008 ,Accepted 11 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2008.03.008

Nutrition Research
Volume 28, Issue 5 , Pages 309-314 , May 2008

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