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Inter‐ and Intra‐Individual Vitamin E Uptake in Healthy Subjects Is Highly Repeatable across a Wide Supplementation Dose Range
Author(s) -
KELLY FRANK J.,
LEE ROSALIND,
MUDWAY IAN S.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1196/annals.1331.003
Subject(s) - metabolite , vitamin e , urine , tocopherol , repeatability , vitamin , chemistry , urinary system , coefficient of variation , blood plasma , population , reference range , endocrinology , medicine , physiology , zoology , antioxidant , biology , chromatography , biochemistry , environmental health
A bstract : Vitamin E uptake after supplementation varies widely in the healthy population, and preliminary studies have indicated that individual responses are relatively stable over periods in excess of 1 year. This phenotypic stability suggests a genetic basis to this observed variation. To examine this issue further, we examined the repeatability of both baseline plasma α‐tocopherol and urinary α‐tocopherol metabolite concentrations, as well as individual responses of these parameters after vitamin E supplementation. In the first study, 65 subjects (33 males, 32 females, aged 30.7 ± 7.4 years) provided three plasma and urine samples for α‐tocopherol and metabolite analysis with each collection separated by at least 2 weeks. Plasma α‐tocopherol concentrations were found to be highly repeatable over this short interval (intra‐class correlation coefficient [ICC] = 0.85), although the association deteriorated once values were corrected for plasma cholesterol (ICC = 0.64). Similarly, urinary α‐tocopherol metabolites 2(2′‐carboxyethyl)‐6‐hydroxychroman acid (α‐CEHC) and quinone lactone (QL) concentration were found to display a moderate degree of intra‐subject repeatability: ICC = 0.65 and 0.58, respectively. In a second study, plasma α‐tocopherol and urinary metabolite responses were investigated in 18 healthy, nonsmoking subjects (12 males, 6 females, aged 33.1 ± 9.1 years) after successive 6‐week periods of vitamin E (RRR‐α‐tocopherol acetate) supplementation at 15, 100, 200, and 400 mg/day. Plasma and urine samples were obtained on days 0, 7, 14, 21, and 28 (7 days after the final supplement) of each dosing period and the strength of the underlying association between responses determined using Kendall's tau_b test. Individual plasma α‐tocopherol responses at the 100, 200, and 400 mg/day doses were found to be highly associated: τ, 0.51, P = 0.02 [100 vs. 200] and τ, 0.49, P = 0.03 [100 vs. 400] and τ, 0.56, P = 0.005 [200 vs. 400]. Together these data support the contention that α‐tocopherol uptake is a stable individual phenotype under genetic regulation.

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