While research has shown that low B12 levels experienced over a long period of time lead to pernicious anemia and the body’s loss of the ability to make intrinsic factor in the stomach, where it’s needed in order to get and use the B12 in food, not everyone with low vitamin B12 leve...
The reason why it is so important to correct a vitamin B12 deficiency is that a lack of this vitamin can lead to macrocytic anemia. This type of vitamin-deficiency anemia causeslarge red blood cellsandlow hemoglobin. According to research published in the journalNutrients, vitamin B12 is usually...
In a review of 26 studies of Graves' disease, they concluded that low vitamin D status may increase the risk of Graves' disease. Cancer The link between the sun and cancer is typically not seen as a positive one because of the connection with skin cancer. UV-B radiation from the sun ...
Dietary intake of B6-9-12 vitamins, serum homocysteine levels and their association with depressive symptoms: The Zutphen Elderly Studydepressive symptomsfolatevitamin B6vitamin B12homocysteineLow B-vitamin status and high levels of serum homocysteine are found in depressed inpatients, but results of ...
in the gut, reaching levels similar to those found in healthy adults, with abundance gradually declining in the elderly.3,4,10A. muciniphilawas detected in human milk, indicating its transfer from mothers to infants through breastfeeding and the presence in the gastrointestinal tract of newborn ...
Risk factors include male gender, menopause in women, hypertension, elevated levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), decreased levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), quitting smoking, diabetes, obesity, having a personal or family history of heart disease, sedentary lifestyle, increasing age, ...
Dementia occurs most commonly in elderly people; it used to be called senility and/or senile dementia, and was considered a normal part of aging. Affected people were labeled as demented. The term "senile dementia" is infrequently used in the current medical literature and has been replaced by...
Using longitudinal data on a large and ethnically diverse sample of urban adults, the associations of serum lipid profile measured by high or low total cholesterol (TC; 4200 mg dl−1; o160 mg dl−1) and by atherogenic indices, namely high total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein ...
Children, teens, the elderly, or men do not get depressed. Depression cannot look like (present as) irritability. The symptoms of depression are the same for everyone who gets the illness. People who tell someone they are thinking about committing suicide are only trying to get attention and ...
Children, teens, the elderly, or men do not get depressed. Depression cannot look like (present as) irritability. The symptoms of depression are the same for everyone who gets the illness. People who tell someone they are thinking about committing suicide are only trying to get attention and ...