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Chromium is an essential element for animals and humans. Insufficient dietary chromium leads to signs and symptoms similar to those associated with diabetes and/or cardiovascular diseases. The dietary chromium intake of normal individuals is often less than the suggested mimimum intake. Children with protein-calorie malnutrition, diabetics, and elderly and middle-aged subjects have all been shown to respond to supplemental Cr. Dietary trends such as consuming more highly processed foods that are often not only low in Cr but also stimulate increased losses of body Cr stores may exacerbate existing problems associated with marginal dietary intake of chromium by humans.

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Borel, J.S., Anderson, R.A. (1984). Chromium. In: Frieden, E. (eds) Biochemistry of the Essential Ultratrace Elements. Biochemistry of the Elements, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4775-0_8

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