Background: Vitamin D deficiency is a worldwide issue and the effect of vitamin D supplementation alone as a possible option to prevent that is still under examination.Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of vitamin D supplementation on term and preterm neonates and mothers for 4 months. Materials and Methods</stron...

Ubiquinone was first observed in the organs of vitamin A-deficient rats (Festenstein, Heaton, Lowe & Morton, 1955)~ and Morton and his co-workers have shown that vitamin A deficiency leads to the accumulation of both ubiquinone and its cyclic isomer, ubichromenol, in the liver of the rat (see, for example, Heaton, Lowe & Morton, 1957; Morton & Phillips, 1959). In an attempt to ascertain whether...

Since 1940 there have appeared several reports on neuromuscular lesions in adult rats in experimental vitamin-E deficiency. It is apparent that side by side with changing concepts of vitamin E and the effects of its deficiency in general, a considerable change in the evaluation of the neuromuscular lesions in particular has taken place. Since the occurrence of neural lesions in experimental vit...

Cigarette smoking produces oxidant-mediated changes in the lung important to the pathogenesis of emphysema. Since vitamin E can neutralize reactive oxygen species and prevent peroxidation of unsaturated lipids, it may constitute an important component of the lung's defense against oxidant injury. To better characterize the antioxidant protective role of vitamin E, young asymptomatic smokers and...

Most athletes use food supplements to obtain a well-trained, athletic, and healthy looking body. Supplementation practices vary between sports and individual athletes. Many athletes take food additives, containing vitamin E and food additives with creatine because of their favorable effects on muscle mass. Vitamin E deficiency leads to serious damage to the body, especially the muscles. Antioxi...

background: there is a growing concern about the high prevalence of vitamin d deficiency and its relationship with variety of diseases worldwide. the objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin d deficiency and its relationship with pregnancy adverse effects in yazd. methods: this was a cross sectional study conducted among 200 nulliparous women from october 2013 to april...

An infant is described who presented with ptosis and periorbital oedema and was found to have infantile cortical hyperostosis with thrombocytosis, raised IgM, and vitamin E deficiency.

A recent article from Pavone et al. published in the Italian Journal of Pediatrics entitled «Ataxia in children: early recognition and clinical evaluation» made an exhaustive overview of the large spectrum of pediatric ataxias. However, we would underline the importance of considering hereditary ataxia due to isolated vitamin E deficiency as a specific and treatable cause of child ataxia. We pr...