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SUBMITTER: Andres E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC490077 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Andrès Emmanuel E Loukili Noureddine Henoun NH Noel Esther E Kaltenbach Georges G Abdelgheni Maher Ben MB Perrin Anne Elisabeth AE Noblet-Dick Marie M Maloisel Frédéric F Schlienger Jean-Louis JL Blicklé Jean-Frédéric JF
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 20040801 3
Vitamin B12 or cobalamin deficiency occurs frequently (> 20%) among elderly people, but it is often unrecognized because the clinical manifestations are subtle; they are also potentially serious, particularly from a neuropsychiatric and hematological perspective. Causes of the deficiency include, most frequently, food-cobalamin malabsorption syndrome (> 60% of all cases), pernicious anemia (15%-20% of all cases), insufficient dietary intake and malabsorption. Food-cobalamin malabsorption, which ...[more]