Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences by Subject "Microvasculature"

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The association of measures of the micro- and macro-vasculature with selenium and GPx activity in a young bi-ethnic population: the African-PREDICT study

Swart, Rijané; Schutte, Aletta E.; Van Rooyen, Johannes M.; Smith, Wayne; Mels, Catharina M.C. (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

Objective: Selenium plays an important physiological role as component for antioxidant selenoproteins such as glutathione peroxidase (GPx). Since oxidative stress contributes to hypertension development, it is likely that ...