The blood levels of water-soluble vitamins were examined to identify a possible difference between male (
n=23) and female (
n=32) Japanese college students with free intake of food. The following values (mean±SD) were obtained. Whole blood vitamin B
1: male, 100±27 pmol/ m
l; female, 102±23 pmol/ m
l. Whole blood vitamin B
2: male, 137±45 pmol/ m
l; female, 137±39 pmol/ m
l. Whole blood NAD: male, 30±5 nmol/ m
l; female, 32±5 nmol/ m
l. Serum vitamin C: male, 42±16 nmol/ m
l; female, 52±14 nmol/ m
l. Serum folates: male, 15.0±5.8 pmol/ m
l; female, 17.7±5.9 pmol/ m
l. Serum vitamin B
12: male, 0.31±0.08 pmol/ m
l; female, 0.38±0.11 pmol/ m
l. Serum biotin: male, 9.4±1.8 pmol/ m
l; female, 7.4±1.9 pmol/ m
l. The only significant difference between sexes was thus found for the vitamin B
12 and vitamin C contents.
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