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    The Role of Selenium in Keshan Disease

    Since the discovery of the essentiality of selenium (Se) for rats by Schwarz and Foltz (1957) and for chicks by Patterson et al. (1957), several naturally occurring animal diseases related to Se and vitamin E (VE...

    Guangqi Yang, Junshi Chen, Zhimei Wen, Keyou Ge in Advances in Nutritional Research (1984)

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    Keshan disease-an endemic cardiomyopathy in China

    Keshan disease, an endemic cardiomyopathy in China, was prevalent in rural areas located in a long belt region where the selenium content was low in foods. Intervention studies with well controled subjects rev...

    Keyou Ge, Anna Xue, ** Bai, Shuqin Wang in Virchows Archiv A (1983)

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    Studies on the relations of selenium and Keshan disease

    Keshan disease is an endemic cardiomyopathy of unknown cause in The People’s Republic of China that occurs most frequently in children under 15 years of age and women of child-bearing age. Studies of children ...

    **aoshu Chen, Guangqi Yang, Junshi Chen, Xuecun Chen in Biological Trace Element Research (1980)