Thiamine deficiency (redirect from Beriberi)
thiamine (vitamin B1). A severe and chronic form is known as beriberi. The name beriberi was possibly borrowed in the 18th century from the Sinhalese...
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prevent thiamine deficiency and the disorders that result from it such as beriberi and Wernicke encephalopathy. They are also used to treat maple syrup urine...
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Adolphe Vorderman (section Beriberi study)
physician and scientist whose study of the link between polished rice and beriberi in the Dutch East Indies in 1897 helped lead to the discovery of vitamins...
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rice documented 161 crew members with beriberi and 25 deaths, while the latter group had only 14 cases of beriberi and no deaths. This convinced Takaki...
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unenriched white rice leaves many people vulnerable to the neurological disease beriberi, due to a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1). White rice is often enriched...
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Hypoesthesia (section Beriberi)
extramedullary tuberculoma of the spinal cord Cutaneous sensory disorder Beriberi Decompression sickness occurs during rapid ascent, spanning 20 or more...
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Takaki Kanehiro (section Work on beriberi)
He is known for his work on preventing the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi among sailors in the Japanese navy, who had been living mainly on white...
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a Dutch physician and professor of physiology whose demonstration that beriberi is caused by poor diet led to the discovery of antineuritic vitamins (thiamine)...
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associated with a diet consisting primarily of maize, while the disease beriberi is associated with a diet of refined white rice. Scurvy can result from...
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Beriberi was common in U.S. Army concentration camps due to a diet of primarily white rice like this case from the Dutch East Indies....
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and medicine. For example, the article on the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi speculates that it is caused by a fungus, vitamins not having been discovered...
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disorder, sensory deprivation, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome or cerebral beriberi and in rare cases major depression (psychotic depression). Other causes...
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is thiamine-deficient. The resulting nervous system ailment is called beriberi. In individuals with sub-clinical thiamine deficiency, a large dose of...
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surgeon Takaki Kanehiro introduced it into institutional cooking to combat beriberi, endemic in the armed forces in the 19th century. It became standard prison...
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investigated for their ability to treat Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome and beriberi better than thiamine. Vitamin B1 analogue Fujiwara M, Watanabe H, Matsui...
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rice variety fortified with thiamine which helped reduce the cases of beriberi in the Philippines and in other countries. "Doctor Juan Sanchez Salcedo...
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living dinosaurs in Komodo Island in 1910. Vitamin B1 and its relation to beriberi disease was discovered by Eijkman during his work in the Indies. With growing...
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pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie der Beriberi (Additional contributions to the pathological anatomy and histology of beriberi), 1884 Klinische Beobachtungen...
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first time since the 1880s, malnutrition was facilitating the spread of beriberi, tuberculosis and other diseases. The British had a stark choice: accept...
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the hospital after undergoing surgery for cataracts and treatment for beriberi. He also suffered from liver problems and gout. Chaney died on July 12...
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in the camps fell ill with a multitude of diseases, including cholera, beriberi, smallpox, and bubonic plague. Civilians also became subject to a curfew...
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studying shipboard beriberi, fed guinea pigs their test diet of grains and flour and were surprised when scurvy resulted instead of beriberi. Unknown at that...
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rice documented 161 crew members with beriberi and 25 deaths, while the latter group had only 14 cases of beriberi and no deaths. This convinced Takaki...
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encephalopathy Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome Risk factors for thiamine deficiency, or beriberi, in turn include a diet of mostly white rice, as well as alcoholism, dialysis...
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part of a larger group of thiamine deficiency disorders that includes beriberi, in all its forms, and alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome. When it occurs simultaneously...
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who modernized Japanese literature. His continued obstinacy to recognize beriberi as a thiamine deficiency led to the death of more than 27,000 Japanese...
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soybeans) and Darak (rice cookies packed with vitamin B-1, which prevents beriberi disease), which she also helped smuggle into Japanese-run internment camps...
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beriberi, due to high consumption of white rice, which is low in thiamine. Soba, which is high in thiamine, was regularly eaten to prevent beriberi....
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accompanying diseases of malnutrition (other such micronutrient deficiencies are beriberi and pellagra) and thus is still widespread in areas of the world depending...
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a rich source of the vitamin B complex; with the vitamin B1 deficiency beriberi being common during World War I, the spread became more popular. British...
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