Is dietary total antioxidant capacity inversely related to central adiposity as well as to metabolic and oxidative stress markers in healthy young adults?
Dietary TAC values are inversely associated with glucose and lipid biomarkers as well as with central adiposity measurements in healthy young adults, indicating dietary TAC as a useful tool to assess the health benefits of cumulative antioxidant capacity from food intake. In addition, the independent and inverse relationships of ox-LDL concentrations with dietary and plasma TAC respectively suggest a putative role of antioxidant rich-diet in the link between redox state and atherogenesis at early stage.
Extremely premature infants who received a complete course of antenatal glucocorticoids had significantly higher total thyroxine levels in the first postnatal week. Maternal, perinatal, and early neonatal variables did not completely explain this association. We speculate that antenatal glucocorticoids influence early neonatal thyroid function.