DSM and University Medical Centre Groningen collaborate on nutrient mapping project

摘要

As part of the existing partnership DSM announces the collaboration with the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) on new research to determine how nutrient status is connected to phenotypes. The project will then map nutritional status against health outcomes in certain populations, in order to further establish why some people develop chronic illnesses early in life, while others remain healthy into old age. Typically, surveys or food diaries are used to determine vitamin intake but such data are often flawed due to inaccurate reporting. Biochemical assessment of vitamin status and intake through plasma or urine samples provides far more realistic data. The findings of these assessments can then be connected to phenotypes like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (NASH), obesity or exposure to air pollution.