Scurvy is largely a historical disease but there are signs it's making a comeback
Scurvy is often considered a historical ailment, conjuring images of sailors on long sea voyages suffering from a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Oct 23, 2024
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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases: News and Research on Deficiency Diseases
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Scurvy may be re-emerging amid cost of living crisis and rise of weight loss surgery
The scourge of scurvy, which is caused by vitamin C deficiency, may be re-emerging amid the cost of living crisis and the rise in weight loss (bariatric) surgery, suggest doctors in the journal BMJ Case Reports after treating ...
Oct 22, 2024
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How vitamin D deficiency can lead to autoimmune diseases
As Canadians brace for "vitamin D winter"—months when the sun's angle is too low to produce the vitamin in the skin—a McGill University study explains why vitamin D deficiency early in life is associated with a higher risk ...
Oct 21, 2024
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Large study finds prolonged fasting for multiple orthopedic surgeries raises risk of malnutrition, worse outcomes
People who have multiple orthopedic surgeries during the same hospital stay are more likely to suffer malnutrition due to repeated or prolonged fasting, which can slow recovery and increase the risk of death, according to ...
Oct 19, 2024
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Both low and high folate levels during pregnancy linked to increased heart defects in babies
Pregnant women with either low or excessively high levels of folate in their blood may face a greater risk of their children developing congenital heart disease, according to a study from Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, ...
Scurvy: Not just an 18th-century sailors' disease
Scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency, is not just an 18th-century seafarers' disease, as a case study of a 65-year-old woman with mobility issues and social isolation shows. In an article published in Canadian Medical Association ...
Oct 7, 2024
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Vitamin deficiencies common in children with nocturnal enuresis
Children with primary nocturnal enuresis may have vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency as well as vitamin B12 deficiency, according to a study published online June 10 in Annals of Medicine.
Oct 1, 2024
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Newborn screening for vitamin B12 deficiency: Benefits outweigh harms
The Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) was commissioned by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) to investigate whether screening for vitamin B12 deficiency and the diseases homocystinuria, propionic ...
Sep 18, 2024
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How and why did half-time oranges in junior sports become a tradition?
Eating oranges at half-time has been a popular and long-standing tradition at junior sports in countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Aug 25, 2024
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Gut dysbiosis found to impair intestinal renewal and lipid absorption in Scarb2 deficiency-associated neurodegeneration
A study published in the journal Protein & Cell details the connection between SCARB2 deficiency and gastrointestinal dysfunction, revealing that the loss of SCARB2 leads to alterations in bile acid metabolism and dysbiosis ...
Aug 23, 2024
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