… be a nutritional deficiency disease that was largely caused by malabsorption of the vitamin
and restricted to older people, particularly those of North European descent, B12 deficiency is …

… 2) Investigations on the mode of action of vitamin B 6 and pantothenic acid have … both
deficiency states. The metabolism of antigen appeared to be normal. However, these two vitamins …

… The prevalence of deficiency is much higher in African and Asian countries—for example,
70% … deficient in vitamin B12 and in Ethiopia 62% of vegetarian pregnant women are deficient.…

Once foods in the United States were fortified with vitamin D, rickets appeared to have been
conquered, and many considered major health problems from vitamin D deficiency resolved. …

… Vitamin D deficiency is now recognized as a pandemic. The major cause of vitamin D deficiency
is the … has resulted in a marked increase in the risk of vitamin deficiency in Australia (40). …

… Randomized controlled trial data of vitamin A interventions and survival were … vitamin A
deficiency. The published relative risks were adjusted for the estimated prevalence of deficiency …

… of deficiency at this age are unknown, poor adolescent vitamin A nutriture may predispose
girls to chronic vitamin A deficiency in adult life that could exacerbate deficiency during …

… data on the vitamin D status of their population and the risk of vitamin D deficiency, as … ) as
the criterion for risk of deficiency, the prevalence of low vitamin D status in the UK during 1992…

… Vitamin D deficiency … vitamin D deficiency leading to rickets or osteomalacia is rare in Brazil,
there is accumulating evidence of the frequent occurrence of subclinical vitamin D deficiency…

… Vitamin A deficiency has a plethora of clinical manifestations, … Like other classical vitamin
deficiency states (scurvy, rickets), … related to vitamin A and/or manifestations of deficiency might …