Prooxidant activities of antioxidants and their impact on health

Sotler, Robert (author), Poljšak, Borut (author), Gošnak Dahmane, Raja (author), Jukić, Tomislav (author), Pavan-Jukić, Doroteja (author), Rotim, Cecilija (author), Trebše, Polonca (author), Starc, Andrej (author)

This review article is focused on the impact of antioxidants and prooxidants on health with emphasis on the type of antioxidants that should be taken. Medical researchers suggest that diet may be the solution for the control of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular complications, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and different cancers. In this survey, we found scientific evidence that the use of antioxidants should be limited only to the cases where oxidative stress has been identified. This is often the case of specific population groups such as postmenopausal women, the elderly, in-fants, workers exposed to environmental pollutants, and the obese. Before starting any supplementa-tion, it is necessary to measure oxidative stress and to identify and eliminate the possible sources of free radicals and thus increased oxidative stress.

• Language: English
• Keywords: oxidative stress, antioxidants, diet, chronic disease, dietary supplements, free radicals
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: ZF - Faculty of Health Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 726-736
• Numbering: Vol. 58, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-115358
• UDC: 613.2+612.3:577.334:616
• ISSN on article: 0353-9466
• DOI: 10.20471/acc.2019.58.04.20
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5795179
• Publication date in RUL: 24.04.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta clinica Croatica
• Shortened title: Acta clin. Croat.
• Publisher: Klinička bolnica Sestre milosrdnice, Institut za kliničko-medicinska istraživanja
• ISSN: 0353-9466
• COBISS.SI-ID: 24114434

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.
• Licensing start date: 24.04.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Croatian
• Keywords: oksidativni stres, antioksidanti, dieta, kronične bolezni, prehranski dodatki, prosti radikali