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Medicalizing Gutom Hunger, Diet, and Beriberi during the American Period [PDF]

, 2015
Thisarticle looks at American responses to food scarcity in the colonial Philippines. Dismissive of hunger and starvation in the early occupation, Americans initially ascribed ill health to poorly chosen foods like rice.
Ventura, Theresa; Department
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No Camphor Toxicity in Cambodian Infants

Global Pediatric Health, 2017
Thiamine deficiency and beriberi are prevalent in Cambodia, although most infants with nonspecific clinical symptoms of beriberi, including tachypnea, lack echocardiographic evidence diagnostic of the disease.
Casey R. Johnson MS, Samuel G. Porter MD, Debra Coats MSN, Kyly C. Whitfield PhD, Khin Mengkheang MS, Mark D. Topazian MD, Philip R. Fischer MD   +6 more
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Facts About Thiamin

EDIS, 2012
A lack of thiamin causes the disease beriberi. People with beriberi have difficulty standing, walking, and controlling their muscles. It’s very easy to get enough thiamin in the diet because it’s added to many processed grains.
R. Elaine Turner, Wendy J. Dahl
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Thiamine-Responsive Acute Pulmonary Hypertension of Early Infancy (TRAPHEI)—A Case Series and Clinical Review

Children, 2020
Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is a syndrome of high pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) commonly seen all over the world in the immediate newborn period.
Nalinikanta Panigrahy, Dinesh Kumar Chirla, Rakshay Shetty, Farhan A. R. Shaikh, Poddutoor Preetham Kumar, Rajeshwari Madappa, Anand Lingan, Satyan Lakshminrusimha   +7 more
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Wernicke encephalopathy and beriberi disease presenting as STEMI-equivalent

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2023
Thiamine deficiency is commonly associated with malnutrition, alcoholism and bariatric surgery. Thiamine deficiency can manifest in different ways, especially in developing countries: as peripheric neuropathy, as Wernicke encephalopathy or as beriberi ...
Miguel Martins Carvalho, Tânia Proença, Ricardo Alves Pinto, Roberto Pinto, Filipe Macedo   +4 more
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Assessment of Erythrocyte Transketolase, Whole Blood Thiamine Diphosphate, and Human Milk Thiamine Concentrations to Identify Infants and Young Children Responding Favorably to Therapeutic Thiamine Administration: Findings from the Lao Thiamine Study, a Prospective Cohort Study

Current Developments in Nutrition
Background: There is limited information on relationships among biomarkers of thiamine status (whole blood thiamine diphosphate [ThDP], erythrocyte transketolase activity coefficient [ETKac], and human milk thiamine [MTh]) and clinical manifestations of ...
Sonja Y Hess, Taryn J Smith, Charles D Arnold, Kerry S Jones, Daniela Hampel, Laurent Hiffler, Indi Trehan, Philip R Fischer, Sarah R Meadows, Damon A Parkington, Kenneth H Brown, Dalaphone Sitthideth, Xiuping Tan, Albert Koulman, Lindsay H Allen, Sengchanh Kounnavong   +15 more
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Lower‐Limb‐Predominant Axonal Sensorimotor Polyneuropathy With Severe Proximal Weakness and Possible Myopathic Involvement After Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Case Report of Delayed Recognition

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 11, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Bariatric surgery is increasingly performed in adolescents and young adults. Although sleeve gastrectomy preserves intestinal continuity and is often regarded as nutritionally low‐risk, it can still precipitate micronutrient deficiency, and obesity itself predisposes to thiamine deficiency, which can cause both Wernicke encephalopathy and a ...
Altin Kuqo, Floreta Kurti, Erand Llanaj
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Plastomes of Ten Blumea Species (Asteraceae): Comparative Analysis and Phylogenetic Relationships

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 10, October 2026.
Comparative analysis of ten Blumea plastomes revealed conserved genome architecture and identified mutation hotspots and positively selected genes. Phylogenetic reconstruction clarified the genus's position within Inuleae and supported its monophyly. This study provides valuable genomic resources for Blumea. ABSTRACT Blumea (Asteraceae) comprises about
Yuemei Zhao, Weixiang Yang, Changjiang Qian, Tao Zhou, Xiao Zhang, Xiaodan Chen, Rongxiang Zhang, Xun Liu   +7 more
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The History of the Discovery of Vitamin K

Basic &Clinical Pharmacology &Toxicology, Volume 139, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Vitamin K was discovered during the 1930s when a strange haemorrhagic disorder was observed in chickens fed a cholesterol‐free diet. A fat‐soluble agent, present in green leafy vegetables and hog liver, was able to restore haemostasis in the chickens.
Hanna Nørgaard Tuxen, Laila Zwisler, Allan Linneberg   +2 more
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Water, pipes and the cholera pathogen: The colonial politics of germs and water infrastructures in the Philippines

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 438-465, September 2026.
This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling, Wolfram H. Dressler, Will Smith   +2 more
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