"Vitamin B 12 Deficiency" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN B 12 in the diet, characterized by megaloblastic anemia. Since vitamin B 12 is not present in plants, humans have obtained their supply from animal products, from multivitamin supplements in the form of pills, and as additives to food preparations. A wide variety of neuropsychiatric abnormalities is also seen in vitamin B 12 deficiency and appears to be due to an undefined defect involving myelin synthesis. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p848)
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D014806
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C18.654.521.500.133.699.923
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| Concept/Terms |
Vitamin B 12 Deficiency- Vitamin B 12 Deficiency
- Vitamin B12 Deficiency
- Deficiency, Vitamin B12
- Deficiencies, Vitamin B12
- Vitamin B12 Deficiencies
- Deficiency, Vitamin B 12
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Gastric acid-inhibiting medications and vitamin B12 deficiency--reply. JAMA. 2014 Apr 09; 311(14):1445-6.
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Proton pump inhibitor and histamine 2 receptor antagonist use and vitamin B12 deficiency. JAMA. 2013 Dec 11; 310(22):2435-42.
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Long-term ovo-lacto vegetarian diet impairs vitamin B-12 status in pregnant women. J Nutr. 2004 Dec; 134(12):3319-26.