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Vitamin B12 deficiency

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2017
Vitamin B12 (B12; also known as cobalamin) is a B vitamin that has an important role in cellular metabolism, especially in DNA synthesis, methylation and mitochondrial metabolism. Clinical B12 deficiency with classic haematological and neurological manifestations is relatively uncommon.
Ralph Green, Lindsay H Allen, Anne-Lise Bjørke-Monsen   +2 more
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Unmasking Pernicious Anemia: A Reversible Cause of Pancytopenia Due to Severe Vitamin B12 Deficiency [PDF]

Cureus
Habeb B, Khair S, Reid A.
europepmc   +3 more sources

Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Ugeskrift for Læger
No international treatment standard for B12 deficiency exists. Current practice predominantly relies on more than 50 years old data. Consequently, this review investigates that we still recommend five injections with 1 mg B12 over 10 days followed by maintenance therapy with 1 mg oral B12 daily or injections, of which the interval is guided by symptom ...
Ankar A, Kumar A.
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The Neurological Sequelae of Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A Systematic Review and Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]

Cureus
Hamza Ali A, Mohamed F, Hago S, Elsadig Elgali I, Sherfeldin Mohammed H, Mirghani R.   +5 more
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Maternal vitamin B12 deficiency and perinatal outcomes in southern India.

PLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundVitamin B12 deficiency during pregnancy has been associated with adverse maternal and infant health outcomes. Few prospective studies have investigated vitamin B12 status early in pregnancy, and its links to infant vitamin B12 status ...
Julia L Finkelstein, Amy Fothergill, Jesse T Krisher, Tinku Thomas, Anura V Kurpad, Pratibha Dwarkanath   +5 more
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Vitamin B12 – a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023

Food & Nutrition Research, 2023
Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) is essential for normal metabolic function, and even moderate deficiency of this vitamin has negative health effects. Vitamin B12 is found in animal foods, and as vegetarian diets are increasingly popular in Western countries, one
Anne-Lise Bjørke-Monsen, Vegard Lysne
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Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Ambulatory Pediatric Outpatient Cases

Çocuk Dergisi, 2022
Objective: This study aims to determine the frequency of vitamin B12 deficiency in children and how it varies according to age groups. Vitamin B12 is an essential vitamin that has an important role in nucleic acid synthesis, erythrocyte maturation, and ...
Muhammet Ali Varkal
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Prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency and its associated neuropathy in patients taking long term metformin therapy in Type 2 diabetes mellitus

Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Research, 2023
Background: Diabetic people on metformin are more likely to develop vitamin B12 deficiency. There has been little research into the duration of therapy and dose of metformin that causes B12 deficiency and peripheral neuropathy.
Suresh Kumar, Sivaprakash Varadan, Viswanathan P, Vaishnavi Sekar, Tanisha Singh, RB Sudagar Singh   +5 more
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二甲双胍日剂量和治疗时间对中国2型糖尿病患者维生素B12缺乏和周围神经病变患病率的影响:一项多中心横断面研究

Journal of Diabetes, 2023
Aims To evaluate the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus receiving metformin treatment and to investigate the effects of metformin daily dose and treatment duration on the prevalence of vitamin B12 ...
Leili Gao, Xingwu Ran, Xuejun Liu, Xingping Shen, Shuchun Chen, Fuqiang Liu, Dong Zhao, Yan Bi, Qing Su, Yao Lu, Minxiang Lei, Yanfang Wang, Linong Ji   +12 more
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Can Vitamin B12 Deficiency Really Cause Vasovagal Syncope? Retrospective Analysis of 469 Pediatric Vasovagal Syncope Cases

Trends in Pediatrics, 2022
Objective: Syncope is a frequent reason for referral to pediatric cardiology clinics. Vitamin B12 deficiency is frequently diagnosed in pediatric patients.
Süleyman Sunkak, Mustafa Argun
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