Vitamin A is important for maintaining healthy and good eyesight. It helps in fighting against infections and protects us from different types of eye disorders.
Symptoms of vitamin D deficiency include muscle aches and weakness, bone pain, muscle spasms, painful walking, and bone fractures. Causes of vitamin D deficiency include not enough sunlight, not enough in your diet, kidney or liver disease, malabsorption
What are health risks of vitamin D deficiency? By the turn of the 20th century, 90% of the children living in New York, Boston, and Leyden in the Netherlands were afflicted with rickets, a bone deforming disease. The first observation of this disease was in the mid-1600s by Whistler and...
Anemia and deficiencies of folate and vitamin B-6 are common and vary with season in Chinese women of childbearing age. Little is known about the micronutrient status of Chinese women of childbearing age. We assessed nonfasting plasma concentrations of folic acid, vitamin B-... AG Ronnenberg,...
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects about 40% of the world population. Many of those affected from vitamin and mineral deficiencies (VMD) appear to have enough to eat but still regularly miss vitamins and micronutrients such as iron, iodine or calcium in their diet. VAD especially affects small...
Vitamin Ddeficiencyin chronic intestinal, liver, bile duct, pancreatic or kidney disorders, lack of sunlight exposure Calcium malabsorptionin celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, surgical removal of the stomach, gastric bypass (bariatric surgery)(317), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)(318) ...
A research group from Italy showed that a pre-endoscopic serological screening for Helicobacter pylori and celiac disease may help to confirm the causes of iron deficiency anemia in young women. This screening permits the identification of patients at higher risk of iron malbsorption related disease ...
Despite substantial declines since 2000, lower respiratory infections (LRIs), diarrhoeal diseases, and malaria remain among the leading causes of nonfatal and fatal disease burden for children under 5 years of age (under 5), primarily in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The spatial burden of each of...
Various underlying conditions, including chronic endometritis; autoimmune diseases, such as antiphospholipid antibody syndrome and autoimmune thyroid disease; ovarian pathologies, such as polycystic ovarian disease, poor ovarian responses, and premature ovarian failures; vitamin D deficiency; and assisted ...
To determine the role of vitamin A in fetal islet development, beta- and alpha-cell mass, apoptosis, and alpha- and beta-cell replication were measured in rats using a model of marginal vitamin A deficiency. Female rats before and during pregnancy and their offspring postweaning were fed a ...