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C M Skeaff
Researcher at University of Otago
Publications - 28
Citations - 2619
C M Skeaff is an academic researcher from University of Otago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cholesterol. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 28 publications receiving 2405 citations. Previous affiliations of C M Skeaff include University of Oxford.
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Fatty acid composition of adipose tissue and blood in humans and its use as a biomarker of dietary intake.
TL;DR: Analysis of evidence from a wide variety of cross-sectional and intervention studies confirms that fatty acid biomarkers can complement dietary assessment methodologies and have the potential to be used more quantitatively.
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WHO Scientific Update on trans fatty acids: summary and conclusions
Ricardo Uauy,Ricardo Uauy,A Aro,Robert Clarke,Ghafoorunissa,M R L'Abbé,Dariush Mozaffarian,Dariush Mozaffarian,C M Skeaff,Steen Stender,M Tavella +10 more
TL;DR: The new information was deemed sufficient to recommend the need to significantly reduce or to virtually eliminate industrially produced TFA from the food supply in agreement with the implementation of the 2004 WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.
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Approaches to removing trans fats from the food supply in industrialized and developing countries
TL;DR: A number of initiatives to reduce the intake of TFAs underway in selected industrialized and developing countries are reviewed, which serves to illustrate the merits and limitations of the available options and how the approaches that have been taken reflect local conditions.
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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations of New Zealanders aged 15 years and older
TL;DR: The high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency in New Zealanders, particularly in older women, may warrant strategies to improve vitamin D status, and ethnicity and season are the major determinants of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the country.
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The effect of replacing dietary saturated fat with polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat on plasma lipids in free-living young adults.
TL;DR: Young adults are very responsive to dietary-induced changes in plasma cholesterol even when an isocaloric replacement of saturated fat with n-6 polyunsaturated or monounsaturated fat is not achieved.