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Published on: May 16, 2019
[The importance of the trace element selenium in internal diseases]
B Kuklinski1, H Voigt, A Herzfeld
1Klinik für Innere Medizin, Bereiches Medizin, Karl-Marx-Universität, Leipzig.
Abstract:
Issuing from the existence of selenium and its interactions with other elements its essentiality in biochemical processes of man was explained. In correspondence with other research teams also own results speak for a relative selenium deficiency in the Middle-European region. Alterations of the cell integrity caused by selenium deficiency may play a role in the etiopathogenesis and perpetuation of chronic cardiovascular diseases as well as of disturbances of the immunoregulation. Recent epidemiological studies and clinical experimental investigations show potential tendencies for prophylaxis and therapy of diseases which are remarkable in health policy.
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