Journal of Nutritional Science and Vitaminology
Online ISSN : 1881-7742
Print ISSN : 0301-4800
ISSN-L : 0301-4800
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Urinary Water-Soluble Vitamins and Their Metabolite Contents as Nutritional Markers for Evaluating Vitamin Intakes in Young Japanese Women
Tsutomu FUKUWATARIKatsumi SHIBATA
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Keywords: biomarker, human, urine, vitamin
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2008 Volume 54 Issue 3 Pages 223-229

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Little information is available to estimate water-soluble vitamin intakes from urinary vitamins and their metabolite contents as possible nutritional markers. Determination of the relationships between the oral dose and urinary excretion of water-soluble vitamins in human subjects contributes to finding valid nutrition markers of water-soluble vitamin intakes. Six female Japanese college students were given a standard Japanese diet in the first week, the same diet with a synthesized water-soluble vitamin mixture as a diet with approximately onefold vitamin mixture based on Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) for Japanese in the second week, with a threefold vitamin mixture in the third week, and a sixfold mixture in the fourth week. Water-soluble vitamins and their metabolites were measured in the 24-h urine collected each week. All urinary vitamins and their metabolite levels except vitamin B12 increased linearly in a dose-dependent manner, and highly correlated with vitamin intake (r=0.959 for vitamin B1, r=0.927 for vitamin B2, r=0.965 for vitamin B6, r=0.957 for niacin, r=0.934 for pantothenic acid, r=0.907 for folic acid, r=0.962 for biotin, and r=0.952 for vitamin C). These results suggest that measuring urinary water-soluble vitamins and their metabolite levels can be used as good nutritional markers for assessing vitamin intakes.

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