THERAPY FOR THE TREATMENT OF COBALAMIN DEFICIENCIES Page 1 The Journal of
Nutrition, Health & Aging© Volume 10, Number 1, 2006 THE JOURNAL OF NUTRITION …

Purpose Standard treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency involves regular intramuscular
cobalamin administration. The aim of this study was to determine whether oral cobalamin …

Background: It has been suggested that oral cobalamin (vitamin B12) therapy may be an
effective therapy for treating cobalamin deficiencies related to food‐cobalamin …

The aim of this work was to review the literature concerning cobalamin deficiency in elderly
patients. Articles were identified through searches of PubMed–MEDLINE (January 1990 to …

Introduction Cobalamin deficiency is frequent in elderly patients and the main aetiologies
are foodcobalamin malabsorption and pernicious anaemia. The aim of our retrospective …

Cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency is particularly common in the elderly (> 65 years of age)
but is often unrecognized because its clinical manifestations are subtle; however, they are …

Background: A high prevalence of cobalamin deficiency occurs in the elderly population,
which may be treated orally or with injections. Little is known about the relative …

PURPOSE: Approximately 15% of people aged more than 60 years old have a cobalamin
(vitamin B12) deficiency, mainly in relation with food-cobalamin malabsorption (FCM). To …

Importance of the field: Cobalamin (vitamin B12) deficiency is particularly common in the
elderly (> 15%). Management of cobalamin deficiency with cobalamin injections is well …

Mildly cobalamin-deficient elderly were supplemented with 1000 μg cobalamin (group C, n=
34), 1000 μg cobalamin with 400 μg folic acid (group CF, n= 31) or a placebo (n= 30) for 6 …