caa a22 4500 386322996 CHVBK 20180307111633.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198811 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1079/BJN19880112 doi S000711458800114X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1079/BJN19880112 Vitamin A reserve of liver in health and coronary heart disease among ethnic groups in Singapore [Elektronische Daten] 1. The vitamin A content of human liver tissue was determined in 363 autopsy samples. The sample comprised a total of 181 subjects dying after accidents and 182 dying from coronary heart disease among Singapore ethnic groups of both sexes. 2. The medium vitamin A reserve was 146 mg/kg in accident victims and 141 mg/kg in those who had died of coronary heart disease. Of all the samples 16% contained less than 40 mg/kg, 45% had 100-300 mg/kg, while 9% contained more than 500 mg/kg liver. 3. Among the accident victims, Indians had the lowest median liver vitamin A reserve (118 mg/kg) compared with that in other ethnic groups (137 mg/kg in Chinese, 191 mg/kg in Malays, 155 mg/kg in Caucasians). 4. The ethnic distribution of vitamin A reserve in coronary deaths was similar to that in accident victims. 5. There was no significant difference between the sexes in hepatic vitamin A reserve. 6. The distribution of vitamin A reserve in all the groups was skewed to the right. Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1988 Saha N. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 Ng T. B. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 Tan P. Y. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 Wee K. P. Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 60/3(1988-11), 407-412 0007-1145 60:3<407 1988 60 BJN https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19880112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1079/BJN19880112 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saha N. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ng T. B. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tan P. Y. Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wee K. P. Department of Pathology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- British Journal of Nutrition Cambridge University Press 60/3(1988-11), 407-412 0007-1145 60:3<407 1988 60 BJN CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge