Associations of dietary copper intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality: findings from the Chinese Perspective Urban and Rural Epidemiology (PURE-China) Study

• Main Authors: Xiaocong Li (Author), Mahshid Dehghan (Author), Lap Ah Tse (Author), Xinyue Lang (Author), Sumathy Rangarajan (Author), Weida Liu (Author), Bo Hu (Author), Salim Yusuf (Author), Chuangshi Wang (Author), Wei Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Previous in vitro and animal experiments have shown that copper plays an important role in cardiovascular health. Dietary copper is the main source of copper in the human body and the association between dietary copper and cardiovascular disease remains unclear. Our study aimed t...