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Selenium status and cancer mortality in subjects residing in four Canadian provinces

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The objective of this study was to measure selenium status in maleand female Canadian subjects relative to cancer mortality in their respectiveprovinces. Toenail specimens from 755 subjects, 377 males and 378 females,living in Vancouver (186), Edmonton (188), Toronto (197) and Montreal (184)were analyzed by instrumental neutron activation analysis giving means of0.968±0.177, 0.950±0.148, 0.932±0.135 and 0.896±0.127ppm Se, respectively. The effect of selenium determinants such as gender,selenium supplementation and smoking on selenium status is presented. Detailsof the observed inverse relationship of selenium status and cancer mortalityare discussed.

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  1. Research Reactor Center, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

    J. S. Morris, T. L. Horsman, V. L. Spate, C. K. Baskett, M. M. Mason & T.A. Nichols

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA

    T. Rohan

  3. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2M7, Canada

    C. L. Soskolne

  4. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A8, Canada

    M. Jain

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Morris, J., Rohan, T., Soskolne, C. et al. Selenium status and cancer mortality in subjects residing in four Canadian provinces. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 249, 421–427 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013243308854

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