Other risk factors for GON include systolic hypertension, diabetes, and peripheral vascular disease. Shanmugasundaram , Department of Biochemistry, PG Institute of Basic Medical P Sciences, University of Madras, Madras India. Urban South Indians have several-fold higher coronary mortality than North Indians. The dietary aberrations causing coronary mortality is yet to be identified. Selenium is a constituent of Glutathione Peroxidase, an enzyme which inactivates the toxic hydrogen peroxide and hydroperoxides.
Selenium is identified as an essential antioxidant nutrient.
In the lacto vegetarian diet, the legumes namely red gram and black gram and wheat, parboiled rice and milk provide selenium. Finger millet rich in selenium is consumed very sparingly. Selenium in South Indian vegetarian diet can be enhanced by substituting polished rice with parboiled rice, wheat and finger millet, as in the North Indian diet. There is growing evidence that dietary antioxidant vitamins can prevent oxidative modification of low-density lipoproteins, thereby inhibiting the promotion of atherosclerosis. The validity correlation comparing the vitamin E intake calculated from the FFQ was five 24-hour dietary recalls was 0.30.