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Central Nervous System Disorders
Reports by R. Prakash and co-researchers describe recent advances in central nervous system disorders
January 6th, 2009
"Pellagra is associated with low levels of vitamin B3 (niacin) and/or tryptophan and often involves other other B vitamins. Since the time Gasper Casal first described the disease in 1972, it was observed that the patients with pellagra were all poor, subsisted mainly oil maize, and rarely ate fresh meat," investigators in Ranchi, India report. "Subsequent Occurrences have been in the form of epidemic outbreaks, consequent to either in introduction to maize as I major food or increased consumption of other niacin-deficient diets like Jowar (Sorgum vulgare). The virtual disappearance of pellagra as an endemic health problem in recent years call be attributed to I rise in...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-01-06)
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