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Findings in blood research reported from M. Malavolta and co-researchers

Published in Blood Weekly, May 20th, 2010

Fresh data on blood research are presented in the report 'Plasma copper/zinc ratio: an inflammatory/nutritional biomarker as predictor of all-cause mortality in elderly population.' According to recent research published in the journal Biogerontology, "Associations have been reported between plasma Cu and Zn levels and the incidence of the most important age-related diseases. Previously proposed methods of using plasma Cu/Zn as a predictor of all-cause mortality have been derived from populations in which old and very old subjects were underrepresented."

"The purpose of this paper is to estimate the usefulness of plasma Cu/Zn as a sensitive biomarker of harmful...

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