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Un brote de beriberi en una cárcel colombiana

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 1998
Se realizó una investigación de campo en Leticia (Amazonas) con el fin de esclarecer la causa del fallecimiento de un joven recluso en la cárcel municipal.
Fernando de la Hoz, Ligia Peréz, Victor A. Olano, Bernardo Buitrago   +3 more
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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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Outbreak of beriberi among African Union troops in Mogadishu, Somalia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES: In July 2009, WHO and partners were notified of a large outbreak of unknown illness, including deaths, among African Union (AU) soldiers in Mogadishu.
John T Watson, Hassan El Bushra, Emmaculate J Lebo, Godfrey Bwire, James Kiyengo, Gideon Emukule, Victor Omballa, John Tole, Muvunyi Zuberi, Robert F Breiman, Mark A Katz   +10 more
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Victor Heiser and the Rockefeller Foundation as a Medium for the Intercolonial Transfer of Health Management Knowledge in Asia in the Era of the League of Nations [PDF]

, 2016
Victor Heiser was in charge of Rockefeller programs in Asia and the Pacific (which his contemporaries called the "Pacific region") as Director for the East of the International Health Board (IHB) of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1915 to 1934.
Tomoko Akami
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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in wet beriberi

Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, 2011
The clinical presentation of beriberi can be quite varied. In the extreme form, profound cardiovascular involvement leads to circulatory collapse and death.
Giri Shivraman, Smith Sakima, Velez Michael R, Essa Essa, Raman Subha V, Gumina Richard J   +5 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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Food is our medicine [PDF]

, 2012
The paper describes the role of foods and nutrition in the promotion of human health. The relationship between foods, metabolism, homeostasis and metabolic disorder are briefly described.
Sarmidi, Mohamad Roji
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'The claims of Asia and the Far East’: India and the FAO in the age of ambivalent internationalism [PDF]

, 2018
If any nation were poised to actualize the developmental promises that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) extended to the international community, it was India.
Siegel, Benjamin
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Micronutrient deficiencies after pancreatico‐duodenectomy: A narrative review of the literature and recommendations for clinical practice

Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 1073-1092, October 2025.
Abstract Micronutrient uptake is impaired after pancreatico‐duodenectomy (PD) because of malabsorption, reduced absorptive capacity, and poor oral intake. Biochemical depletion is reported in cohort studies, but deficiency states are predominantly reported in case reports, making it difficult to assess occurrence rates.
Mary E. Phillips, Callum Livingstone, Adam E. Frampton, Kathryn H. Hart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vitamins [PDF]

, 1924
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Lyman, John F.
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