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Physiological Associations between Vitamin B Deficiency and Diabetic Kidney Disease [PDF]

Biomedicines, 2023
The number of people living with chronic kidney disease (CKD) is growing as our global population continues to expand. With aging, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease being major harbingers of kidney disease, the number of people diagnosed with diabetic
Henry H. L. Wu, Thomas McDonnell, Rajkumar Chinnadurai   +2 more
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Importance of Vitamin Supplementation During Pregnancy: Pancytopenia in a 3-Month-Old Neonate [PDF]

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Background and Clinical Significance: Vitamin B12 deficiency in infancy is an uncommon but reversible cause of severe hematologic abnormalities and potential neurologic injury, particularly in exclusively breastfed infants whose vitamin B12 status ...
Cathérine Van Den Plas, Toon van Genechten, Marie-Berthe Maes, Kathleen Deiteren, Catharina van der Heijden   +4 more
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Prevalence and determinants of vitamin D deficiency amongst patients in Erbil, Kurdistan region of Iraq [PDF]

Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy, 2023
Aim: This study aims at calculating the prevalence of Serum Vitamin D deficiency and determining risk factors associated with deficiency amongst patients in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Shwan Othman Ameen, Banan Qasim Rasool, Aya Nasih Mohammad, Sayran Mohamad Tahr, Gazang Noori Abdulla, Dhuha Abdulraheem Omar, Anna Závadová, Bareq Sabeeh Hashim   +7 more
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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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Prognostic significance of sarcopenia and severe vitamin D deficiency in patients with cirrhosis

JGH Open, 2023
Background and Aim Sarcopenia and severe vitamin D deficiency are associated with malnutrition and poor prognosis. We investigated the impact of the comorbidity of Child–Pugh (CP) class B/C cirrhosis and the aforementioned complications on the prognosis ...
Chisato Saeki, Tomoya Kanai, Kaoru Ueda, Masanori Nakano, Tsunekazu Oikawa, Yuichi Torisu, Masayuki Saruta, Akihito Tsubota   +7 more
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Involvement of Spermidine in the Reduced Lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans During Vitamin B₁₂ Deficiency

Metabolites, 2019
Vitamin B12 deficiency leads to various symptoms such as neuropathy, growth retardation, and infertility. Vitamin B12 functions as a coenzyme for two enzymes involved in amino acid metabolisms.
Tomohiro Bito, Naho Okamoto, Kenji Otsuka, Yukinori Yabuta, Jiro Arima, Tsuyoshi Kawano, Fumio Watanabe   +6 more
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A study of clinical profile of vitamin B 12 deficiency with special reference to dermatologic manifestations in a Tertiary Care Hospital in sub-Himalayan Bengal

Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2015
Background: Vitamin B 12 deficiency is thought to be uncommon in the eastern parts of India including Bengal and the eastern states as compared to the northern and southern parts of India.
Kaushik Sen, Pradyot Sinhamahapatra, Joseph Lalhmachhuana, Subhabrata Ray   +3 more
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Maternal vitamin deficiency mimicking multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency on newborn screening

Molecular Genetics and Metabolism Reports, 2021
Background: In infancy multiple acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MADD) is commonly a severe inherited metabolic disease caused by genetic defects in electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF) or ETF ubiquinone oxidoreductase.
Gwendolyn Gramer, Georg F. Hoffmann, Julia B. Hennermann   +2 more
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Effects of Mild and Severe Vitamin B Deficiencies on the Meiotic Maturation of Mice Oocytes

Nutrition and Metabolic Insights, 2017
We investigated the effects of vitamin B 1 deficiency on the meiosis maturation of oocytes. Female Crl:CD1 (ICR) mice were fed a 20% casein diet (control group) or a vitamin B 1 –free diet (test group).
Ai Tsuji, Toshinobu Nakamura, Katsumi Shibata   +2 more
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The Role of Vitamin D in Kidney Transplantation Outcomes: A Systematic Review

Life, 2022
The aim of this systematic review is to assess the impact of vitamin D on the outcomes of kidney transplantation and investigate whether its deficiency is associated with a negative impact.
Georgios Koimtzis, Leandros Stefanopoulos, Verity Brooker, Georgios Geropoulos, Christopher G. Chalklin, Sapna Gupta, Eliot Carrington-Windo, Maria Papaioannou, Theodosios S. Papavramidis   +8 more
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