Deficiency diseases are the diseases caused due to the insufficient intake of certain essential nutrients such as vitamins and minerals. Explore the important deficiency diseases and their prevention.
We studied daily micronutrient intake from vitamin-mineral supplements, health-related life style, clinical case of diseases and food frequency of the Korean middle-aged (40 - 59 yr, n = 404) to compare the characteristics of non-user (n = 270) and user (n = 134) of vitamin-mineral ...
Vitamin A deficiency: This vitamin is an essential fat-soluble vitamin that helps form and maintain healthy skin, bones, teeth and cell membranes. Magnesium deficiency: Magnesium is a key mineral for bone and teeth structure and a deficiency is associated with many health conditions and diseases....
Vitamin and Mineral Supplements in the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: An Updated Systematic Evidence Review for the U.S. Preventi... Background: Vitamin and mineral supplements are commonly used to prevent chronic diseases. Purpose: To systematically review evidence for the ...
or mineral supplements, with the expectation that the products will prevent chronic diseases. The rationale is that CVD and cancers, the 2 leading causes of death, share the risk factors of inflammation, variant methionine metabolism, and oxidative stress and that micronutrients counter these problems...
Table 1. Literature overview on vitamin and mineral status in newly diagnosed adult celiac disease (CD)-patients. It has been suggested that the current “early diagnosis” of CD might be associated with less vitamin and mineral deficiencies at the moment of diagnosis than the classical CD. M...
Vitamin, Mineral, and Multivitamin Supplements for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer: A Systematic Evidence Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Evidence Synthesis No. 209. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; 2022. AHRQ publication 21-05278-EF-1. 32....
The purpose of this study was to estimate the consumption prevalence of vitamin and mineral supplements as health functional foods (VM-HFF) and to examine the factors associated with VM-HFF consumption behaviors in adolescents. A total of 1,407 adolescents attending middle or high schools from var...
Always talk to your doctor before taking vitamin and mineral supplements. Is vitamin D vegan? Vitamin D3 has historically been made from lanolin extracted from sheep wool, but recently, a vegan/vegetarian form has become available. This version is extracted from lichen (a type of plant usually...
Vitamin D deficiency is a candidate risk factor for osteoporosis, characterized by decreased bone mineral density (BMD). We performed this two-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis to investigate the causal effect of vitamin D on BMD. We extracted 143 single-nucleotide polymorphisms from a re...