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Idiopathic autoimmune hemolytic anemia along with concomitant vitamin B12 deficiency in an adolescent girl: A rare occurrence

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Vitamin B12 deficiency is seen in countries like India mainly because of predominantly vegetarian diet and is a significant health problem. Patients present with various neurological and hematological manifestations of megaloblastic anemia.
Kapil Bhalla, Nisha Verma, Sanjiv Nanda, Ashish Gupta, Shuchi Mehra   +4 more
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Multiple sclerosis-like neurological manifestations in a coeliac patient: nothing is as it seems [PDF]

, 2012
Cobalamin (vitamin B(12)) deficiency occurs with several disorders, involving different organs and systems, including blood, bowel, nervous system and eyes.
CARROCCIO, Antonio, D'ALCAMO, Alberto, DI STEFANO, Laura, MANSUETO, Pasquale   +3 more
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Sub-optimal vitamin B-12 levels among ART-naïve HIV-positive individuals in an urban cohort in Uganda.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Malnutrition is common among HIV-infected individuals and is often accompanied by low serum levels of micronutrients. Vitamin B-12 deficiency has been associated with various factors including faster HIV disease progression and CD4 depletion in resource ...
Aggrey S Semeere, Damalie Nakanjako, Henry Ddungu, Andrew Kambugu, Yukari C Manabe, Robert Colebunders   +5 more
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Vitamin D and Parathyroid Hormone during Growth Hormone Treatment

Children, 2022
Background. There is some controversy concerning a potential interaction between vitamin D and PTH and the GH/IGF-1 axis. The goal of this study is to assess vitamin D and PTH status in children with GH deficiency at diagnostic and during treatment with ...
Teodoro Durá-Travé, Fidel Gallinas-Victoriano   +1 more
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Severe Megaloblastic Anaemia in an Infant [PDF]

, 2011
Vitamin B 12 or cobalamin deficiency, a rare clinical entity in pediatric age, is found most exclusively in breastfed infants, whose mothers are strictly vegetarian non-supplemented or with pernicious anaemia.
Brito, MJ, Cordeiro Ferreira, G, Dias, A, Galvão, I, Rodrigues, V   +4 more
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Food Groups Associated with a Composite Measure of Probability of Adequate Intake of 11 Micronutrients in the Diets of Women in Urban Mali [PDF]

, 2010
The prevalence of micronutrient deficiency is high among women of reproductive age living in urban Mali. Despite this, there are little data on the dietary intake of micronutrients among women of reproductive age in Mali.
Ahn, Allen, Arimond, Barikmo, Becquey, Block, Chiara Seghieri, Daniels, Daniels, FAO/WHO, Foote, Frans J. Kok, Gibson, Gina Kennedy, Hatloy, Inge D. Brouwer, International Zinc Nutrition Consultative Group, IOM, IOM, IOM, IOM, Joseph, Kennedy, Kennedy, Koreissi, Mary Arimond, Nadia Fanou-Fogny, Romain Dossa, Ruel, Ruel, Sodjinou, Solomons, StataCorp, Steyn, Torheim, UNICEF, United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination/Subcommittee on Nutrition in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute, WHO, WHO/FAO, WHO/FAO, Wiesmann, Working Group on Infant and Young Child Feeding Indicators, Yara Koreissi   +42 more
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Correlation between serum concentrations of homocysteine, folate and vitamin B12 in patients with schizophrenia [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction: The role of hyperhomocysteinemia in psychotic disorder can be explained by partial antagonism of homocysteine on NMDA-glycine receptor. Plasma concentration of homocysteine is an indicatorof the status of the B-vitamins (folate, B12, B6 ...
Fisekovic, Saida, Kucukalic, Abdulah, Memic, Amra, Sahbegovic, Sabina, Serdarevic, Nafija, Serdarevic, Raif   +5 more
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Prevalence of vitamin B deficiency among metformin-treated type 2 diabetic patients in a tertiary institution, South-South Nigeria

SAGE Open Medicine, 2019
Background: The risk of chronic metformin pharmacotherapy to cause vitamin B 12 deficiency and its associated medical complications has been of immense concern among diabetic patients.
Sampson Omagbemi Owhin, Tomisin Mathew Adaja, Olumuyiwa John Fasipe, Peter Ehizokhale Akhideno, Olufunto Olufela Kalejaiye, Michael Olufemi Kehinde   +5 more
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Cobalamin and folate deficiencies among children in the age group of 12-59 months in India

Biomedical Journal, 2015
Background: Anemia is a major public health problem among children under 5 years of age in India. Cobalamin and folate deficiencies play an important role in the etiology of anemia.
Umesh Kapil, GS Toteja, Ajeet Singh Bhadoria   +2 more
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High prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in Sicilian children affected by growth hormone deficiency and its improvement after 12 months of replacement treatment. [PDF]

, 2014
PURPOSE: Although the correlation between vitamin D and growth hormone (GH)-insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) axis is documented, as of date, few and conflicting studies have prospectively analyzed vitamin D before and after GH treatment.
Cicciò, F, CIRESI, Alessandro, GIORDANO, Carla   +2 more
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