• Robert Sotler, Borut Poljšak, Raja Dahmane, Tomislav Jukić, Doroteja Pavan Jukić, Cecilija Rotim, Polonca Trebše, and Andrej Starc.
• 1Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Department of Nursing, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Department of Health Ecology and Control, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 3Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Department of Biomedicine in Health Care, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 4Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and History of Medicine, Osijek, Croatia; 5Faculty of Medicine, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Osijek, Croatia; 6Dr Andrija Štampar Teaching Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia; 7Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Department of Public Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• Acta Clin Croat. 2019 Dec 1; 58 (4): 726-736.

AbstractThis 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, infants, workers exposed to environmental pollutants, and the obese. Before starting any supplementation, it is necessary to measure oxidative stress and to identify and eliminate the possible sources of free radicals and thus increased oxidative stress.

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