Monday, April 10, 2017

Choline and betaine consumption lowers cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies

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A number of human and animal in vitro or in vivo studies have investigated the relationship between dietary choline and betaine and cancer r...

Higher Dietary Choline and Betaine Intakes Are Associated with Better Body Composition

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BACKGROUND: Choline is an essential nutrient and betaine is an osmolyte and methyl donor. Both are important to maintain health including ad...

Higher dietary intakes of choline and betaine are associated with a lower risk of liver cancer

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The dietary intake of methyl donors is favorably associated with many diseases, but the findings regarding primary liver cancer (PLC) risk a...
Monday, December 12, 2016

High dietary choline and betaine intake is associated with low insulin resistance

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OBJECTIVE: Dietary betaine supplement could ameliorate insulin resistance (IR) in animals, but no data are available for choline. Reports on...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis is associated with a state of betaine-insufficiency

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) develops from a complex process, which includes changes in the liver methylome...
Monday, February 22, 2016

Serum betaine but not choline is inversely associated with breast cancer risk: a case-control study in China

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PURPOSE: Choline and betaine are important for DNA methylation and synthesis, and may affect tumor carcinogenesis. To our knowledge, no prev...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Betaine reverses the memory impairments in a chronic cerebral hypoperfusion rat model

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Vascular dementia (VaD) is the second reason for the cognitive decline in aged people, but the effective therapy is still missing. The chron...