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Essential element

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if a deficiency impairs a biochemical or functional process and replacement of the element corrects this impairment

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Nonessential trace elements

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trace elements are of medical interest primarily because many of them are toxic.

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The absorption, transport, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of elements are important to the …

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clinical significance of disease states or toxicity

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Specimens for analysis must be collected with attention to details such as…

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anticoagulant, collection apparatus, and specimen type

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Ubiquitous presence of trace metals in the environment have extraordinary measures that are required to prevent …

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contamination of specimens

-Royal blue stopper with or without EDTA additive.

-Prevent environmental contamination (sample cups, pipettes, water, etc.)

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***Atomic Emission Spectroscopy

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Quantification of an element by measuring the intensity of emitted radiation from an aerosolized sample.

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***Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy

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Determination of element quantity through the absorption of optical radiation by fee atoms in the gas phase.

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Aluminum is the most _____ metal in earth’s crust.

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abundant

-Absorption, transport, and Excretion
–Ingestion, inhalation, and parenteral absorption
—–Concentrates in bone (50%) and lung (25%)

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Where is Aluminum found?

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industrial and household items

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Explain the absorption, transport, and excretion of aluminum…

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-This metal can be ingested, inhaled, and parenteral absorbed. (concentrates in bone 50%) and lung (25%)
-Transported bound to proteins (transferrin)
-Urine accounts for 95% of excretion; 2% in bile

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Aluminum is transported bound to

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proteins (transferrin)

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Aluminum is in 95% of urine excretion and 2% in

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bile

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What are the Health Effects and Toxicity of aluminum?

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-Interferes with enzyme activity
-Encephalopathy, anemia, bone disease, and progressive dementia

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Arsenic has both _____ and _________ properties

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metallic, non-metallic

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Where is Arsenic found?

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pesticides, pigments, manufacturing processes

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The largest source of exposure of Arsenic is in

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food

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What are the health effects and toxicity of Arsenic?

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-Acute and chronic states and fatal at low doses
-GI, cardiovascular, hepatic, dermatologic, renal involvement
-One of the most common poisons in history

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What are the absorption, transport, and excretion factors of Arsenic?

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-Ingestion and inhalation
-Hepatic metabolism
-Organic arsenic is clearly rapidly; inorganic and methylated are more toxic

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This metal is a soft, bluish-white metal-can cut with a knife

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Cadmium

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This metal is used in industry, soil contamination

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Cadmium

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What are the absorption, transport, and excretion factors of Cadmium?

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-Ingestion (5%) and inhalation (10-50%)
-Higher in females and smokers than males and nonsmokers
-Urine accounts for 95% of excretion; 2% in bile

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What are the Health Effects and Toxicity of Cadmium?

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-No role in human physiology
-Affects liver, bone, immune, blood, pulmonary, and nervous system

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This metal is used in manufacturing stainless steel

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Chromium

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What is the absorption, transport, and exretion of Chromium?

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-Ingestion, inhalation, and dermal absorption
-Cr6+ easier to absorb and more toxic than Cr3+
-Transported bound to albumin and transferrin

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What is the health effects and toxicity of Chromium?

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-Cr3+ is an essential element for insulin action, Cr6+ an oxidizing agent
-Lung irritation and dermatitis are more common; liver, kidney, and immune system,

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This metal is relatively soft yet tough metal and excellent electrical and heat conducting.

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Copper

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This metal is an important cofactor and critical for the reduction of iron in heme synthesis

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Copper

-Hepatic copper (10% of total copper in the body)
-Found in cornea, spleen ,intestine, and lungs

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What is the Absorption, Transport, and Excretion of Copper?

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-Ingestion, inhalation, and dermal
-Transported bound to proteins (albumin)
-Bile accounts for 98% of excretion; < 3% in urine/sweat

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What are the Health Effects and Toxicity of Copper?

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-Important for many metalloenzymes
-Heaptic and renal damages; neurologic symptom; mucous membrane irritant
-Wilson’s disease - copper rings in the eyes

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For nutritional deficiency, serum copper levels are ______, while in urine copper levels are ______

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  • serum copper levels are low
  • urine copper levels are low
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For acute copper toxicity, serum copper levels are ______, while in urine copper levels are ______

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  • serum copper levels are high or very high
  • urine copper levels are high
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For Chronic copper toxicity, serum copper levels are _____, while in urine copper levels are _______

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  • serum copper levels are high
  • urine copper levels are high
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For Wilson’s disease, serum copper levels are _____, while in urine copper levels are ____

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  • serum copper levels are normal or low
  • urine copper levels are high or very high
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For Menkes disease, serum copper levels are ________, while urine copper levels are ____

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-serum copper levels are low
-urine copper levels are high

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What is the Absorption, Transport, and Excretion of Iron?

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-Ingestion (10% of ingested is absorbed ); Fe3+ must be reduced for absorption
-Transported bound to proteins (ferritin)
-Iron is lost primarily by desquamation o f epithelia, red cell loss to urine and feces, and menstruction

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What are the health effects and toxicity of Iron?

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-important for hemoglobin , myoglobin, enzymes
-efficiency and overload states possible
-also stored as ferritin and hemosiderin in BM, spleen, and liver
-Iron deficiency in 15% worlds population

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The Laboratory Evaluation of Iron status includes…

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-Hemoglobin and RBC indices, total Fe, TIBC, % saturation, transferrin, and ferritin

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Measurement of serum iron concentrations refers specifically to the

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Fe3+

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Early morning sample collection is preferred for this metal because of diurnal variation

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Iron

-No visible hemolysis

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This is the primary plasma iron transport protein, which bind iron.

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Transferrin

-Saturated with aprox. 25-30% iron
-The additional amount of iron that can be bound is the unsaturation iron-binding capacity (UIBC)

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This is the theoretical amount of iron that could be bound if transferrin and other minor iron-binging proteins present in the serum/plasma were saturated.

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Total Iron-Binding Capacity (TIBC)

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Percent saturation of Iron

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Also called transferrin saturation is the ratio of serum iron to TIBC

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This is the major iron storage protein in the body . This is more sensitive and reliable test for demonstration of iron deficiency.

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Ferritin

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The concentration of ferritin is directly proportional to the total ..

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iron stores in the body

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This metal is a soft, bluish-white, highly malleable, and ductile that was previously used in gasoline and paint

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Lead

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What is the absorption, transport, and excretion of Lead?

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-primarlily ingestion and inhalation
-99% is absorbed by RBC; liver, kidney and brain with heights in bone (90%)
-Urine accounts for 76% of excretion; 16% in feces, remainder in hair, sweat, nails

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What are the health effects and toxicity of lead?

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-no physiological role
-higher absorption in children; leads to neurological symptoms and low IQ anemia

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This metal is a production of steel.

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Manganese

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What is the Absorption, transport and excretion of Manganese?

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-Primarily ingestion; inhalation and dermal limited
-foudn mostly in fat and bone
-bile accounts of rmajoity of excretion

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What are the health effects and toxicity of Manganese?

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-Important for many metalloenzymes and enzyme activation
-Deficient and toxic states have been observed
-Deficient: clotting issues, dermatitis, elevated serum Ca, Phos, ALP
-Toxicity: nausea, vomiting, he ache, disorientation, anxiety, compulsive laughing or crying (managenes madness)

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This metal is known as “quicksilver”, heavy, slivery metal, liquid at room temperature

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Mercury

52
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What are the 3 naturally occurring oxidation states of Mercury?

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Hg0, Hg1+, Hg2+

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What is the Absorption, transport, and excretion of Mercury?

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-Inhalation most common; ingestion , cutaneous injection, dental
-Kidney major storage organ, followed by liver, spleen, and brain
-Fecal and urinary excretion

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What are the Health Effects and toxicity of Mercury?

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-No physiologic role
-CNS and PNS toxicity; can damage most organs/tissues before symptoms occur

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What’s the Absorption, Transport, and excretion of Molybdenum?

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-Up to 80% absorbed by ingestion
-Found mainly in liver, skeleton, and kidneys
-Bound to alpha2-macroglobulin and RBC membranes
-Maininly urinary secretion

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What are the health effects and toxicity of Molybdenum?

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-important cofactor for several enzymes
-deficiency and toxicity is rare

57
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This metal is used in electronic industry, nutritional supplements, pigments, pesticides, dandruff shampoos, fungicides

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Selenium

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What’s the Absorption, transport, and excretion of Selenium?

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-Ingestion is most common (up to 50% of diet is absorbed)
-Urine accounts for most excretion; some excretion in sweat and exhalation

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What are the Health effects and toxicity of Selenium?

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-important antioxidant and for thyroid hormones synthesis
-deficient states lead to cardiomyopathy; toxic states cause GI, tachycardia, CNS symptoms

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This metal is bluish-white lustrous metal, stable in dry air, becomes covered in white coating with moisture exposure

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Zinc

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What’s the Absorption, transport , and Excretion of Zinc?

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-Ingestion is most common
-Primarily found in muscle (60%) and bone (30%)
-Rbc the up most of the zine in blood (80%)
-Fecal accounts most excretion

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Health effects and toxicity of Zinc

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-Important for enzyme activity, DNA/RNA, membrane structure, among others
-Deficiency causes growth inhibition and testicular atrophy toxicity is rare

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Vitamins are

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small molecules important as cofactors in many biologivial/enzumeatic reactions

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Vitamin-related situations that the laboratories may assay for determination of

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health status

65
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Deficiency

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due to either inadequate diet, inadequate GI absorption, competing organisms (ex. parasites)

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Insufficiency

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due to increased metabolism that mandates intake and absorption of greater than normal levels

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Toxicity

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abnormally high intake that can lead to pathology (mostly leading to either hepatic or kidney damage)

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Fat soluble vitamins

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-Vitamin A (Retinol
-Vitamin D
-Vitamin E
-Vitamin K

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Water Soluble Vitamins

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  • Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C.)
  • Thiamine ( Vitamin B1)
  • Niacin (Vitamin B2)
  • Riboflavin (Vitamin B4)
  • Pantothenic acid ( Vitamin B5)
  • Pyridoxine (Vitamin B6)
  • Biotin (Vitamin B7)
  • Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12)
  • Folic acid
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This type of vitamin dissolve in Fat before absorbed into blood stream

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Fat Soluble Vitamins

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The process to dissolve fat soluble vitamins requires what kind of acids from the liver?

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bile acids

72
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What breaks down fat so it interferes with absorption of fat soluble vitamins?

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Lipase

73
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What carries/transports fat soluble vitamins?

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Lipoproteins ( LDL - Vitamin E)

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Where is Fat soluble vitamins stored primarily?

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  • intestines
  • liver
  • fatty tissues
75
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Water soluble vitamins dissolve in what?

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water

76
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Where are water soluble vitamins stored?

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There not stored in the body.

77
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How are water soluble vitamins eliminated?

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regularly in urine and feces

78
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True or False: water soluble vitamins are needed constantly re-supply

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True

79
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These type of vitamins have a less change of toxicity. Except renal damage, which can impair excretion

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Water soluble vitamins

80
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This is a complex system that varies based on vitamin.

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Vitamin Metabolism

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For vitamin metabolism, what is the major site of vitamin absorption in the human body?

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The small intestine

82
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In Vitamin Metabolism, how are nutrients picked up and absorbed in a cellular level?

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Nutrients enter at a cellular level and are picked up and absorbed via blood capillaries and lymph fluids through the processes of active transport, diffusion and osmosis.

83
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In the large intestine, what vitamins are metabolized?

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Vitamin B-12 and vitamin K are metabolized.

84
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What vitamins are the commonly assayed?

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-Folate (b9)
-Vitamin b12
-vitamin D

85
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Which vitamins is the most common vitamin deficiency and can lead to megaloblastic anemia?

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Folate

86
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It is important to differentiate the reason for _______ anemia. Whether it is due to low levels of folate or B12

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megaloblastic

87
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What two other pathologies depend on normal levels of folate?

What test should be both performed?

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-Increased likelihood of neural tube defects in infants born to mother with a folate deficiency

-increased levels of atherosclerosis related to homocysteine turnover decency on appropriate vitamin levels

Performed on both serum and RBC hemolysate

88
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Cobalamin or Cyanocobalamin are other names for Vitamin …

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Vitamin B12

89
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This vitamin is absorption dependent on intrinsic Factor

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Vitamin B12

90
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Vitamin B12 is associated with

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Megaloblastic anemia
-insufficent dietary B12
Malabsorption
Pernicious anemia

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What transports Vitamin B12?

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Specific serum transport proteins helps transport B12 to tissues (transcobalamins)

92
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How do we test Vitamin B12?

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-serum or plasma
-similar to folate assays

93
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True or False: Vitamin D is contained in a few foods.

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True.

Major natural source of vitamin D is synthesis of cholecalciferol in the skin from cholesterol through a chemical reaction that is dependent on sun exposure (specifically UVB)

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Which vitamin is mostly synthesis of cholecalciferol in the skin and from what lipid helps it through a chemical reaction that is dependent on sun exposure?

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Vitamin D

95
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Why would Vitamin D be important for assessing?

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Vitamin D

Important for assessing:
-Parathryoid function
-bone development
chronic renal failure
-monitioring vitamine D therapry
-vitamin D toxicity
-small bowel disease
-pancreatic insufficuency
-drug-related hypovitaminosis

96
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This vitamin is from diet or skin synthesis and is biological inactive.

What is required for this vitamin to be activated?

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-Vitamin D

-Enzymatic conversion in the liver and kidney is required for activation

97
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Explain the process of Vitamin D metabolism

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  • Vitamin D is intake or sun exposure and taken to the liver.
  • It converts to 25-hydroxyvitamin D and taken to the kidney
    -It coverts to 1, 25-di-hydroxyvitmain D (active form)
    -Then activates vitamin D receptor (VDR) in target organs

(Lung, colon, small intestine -> calcium to bone)

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What are the two major goupes of over starvation that are seen in Protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM)?

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-Marasmus
-Kwashiorkor

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What is the difference between Marasmus and Kwashiorkor?

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Marasmus: is deficient of all macronutrients, so you are deficient in protein and calories. MOST severe and general wasting.

Kwashiorkor: You have enough calories, but you don’t have enough protein. Less severe, but you are losing visceral muscle proteins.

100
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Do malnourished Staes in western societies present over starvation such as Marasmus or Kwashiorkor?

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No. You don’t usually see these cases in the U.S, but both malnutrition and starvation can have similar harmful outcomes.

101
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True or False: Inadequate nutrition can appear due to any combination of the following:

-Eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia, nervosa, or depression
-Limited diets
-Cachexia due to cancer
-Maldigesition (primary or secondary)
-Malabsorption (primary or secondary)
-Loss of appetite or ability to eat secondary to disease
-Loss of appetite or ability to eat secondary to therapy (drug, radiation, long term dialysis)
-Surgical outcome (eg. gastrectomy)
-Drug interaction (eg. contraceptives have a negative effect on vitamin status and utilization )

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True

102
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What are the Negative Outcomes of Malnutrition?

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  • Increased mortality and morbidity
  • impaired wound healing
  • increased rates of infection
  • increased length of hospital stay
103
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How is nutritional status determined? (non-laboratory tools)

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  • Patient history (e.g. weight loss)
    -Evaluation of signs and symptoms (eg. depression, no appetite)
    -Anthropomorphic measurements (height, weight, skin fold thickness, wrist and mid-arm muscular circumference)
    -Functional assays (eg. muscle strength)
    -Body composition (water content, cell mass, bone mass, fat, etc.)
104
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What are the most useful laboratory assessment tools for nutritional status to be determined?

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Selected protein markers.

This can be done in the lab through:
-Hemtology assay
-Immunologoy assays
-Non-protein chemistry

105
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What are the protein markers for assessing nutrimental status?

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-Transferrin
-Transthyretin (Pre-albumin)
-Retinol binding protein (RBP) - responsible for vitamin A transport
-Others ( Albumin, amino acids, insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) - regulatory of cell growth, leptin)

106
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True or False: There is currently no single marker that can assess overall national status

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True.

The individual protein markers tests together for assessing national status may provide information on metabolic status, determine prognosis, and monitoring of nutrition support.

107
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What are the Limitations of protein markers for assessing nutritional status?

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Serum levels can be altered by factors other than the patient’s nutritional status such as:

-Most importantly the acute phase response:
–> Levels should be interpreted along with clinical findings and the results of other investigations including all inflammatory marker such as C-reactive protein (CRP)
-Many affected by liver disease
-Recent food intake
-Hydration changes
-Others

108
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** Using a plasma marker (usually _______) is used in conjunction with an acute phase reactant like CRP

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Pre-albumin

109
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If CRP level is normal, a low pre-albumin level indicates

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protein malnutrition

110
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If the CRP level is significantly increased in the presence of low pre-albumin there might be

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a false decreased in pre-albumin

111
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During monitoring, patients with decreasing levels of CRP and increasing levels of pre-albumin indicates

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an improving nutrition status

112
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What do we do if we need to give patient nutrition and they can’t take it in traditionally.

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We use TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition). This is where a patient will have a central line inserted in their chest and they get all their nutrition via IV.

113
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When would be best or common practice to insert a TPN (Total Parenteral Nutrition) on a patient?

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-If body weight has decreased more than 5%, and the illness has been present for more than 7 days, forced enteral (feeding) (common in anorexia patient treatment) or parenteral nutrition may be required.

  • Parenteral nutrition is necessary when the GI tract is not properly functioning
  • or when the patient cannot take anything by mouth.
114
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True or False: The lab plays a very important role in monitoring TPN

A

True!

114
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True or False: the lab plays a very important role in monitoring TPN treatment.

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True

-Healthcare providers & dietitians look for distinct signs of TPN associated electrolyte and mineral abnormalities. The lab results are the key to determine the course of action with these patients.

115
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What are the advantages of TPN treatment?

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-can help patient return to a healthy weight
-can help maintain their weight while they are going through some kind of treatment
-can help seal the bowel
-can help someone stop rectal bleeding
-can help a patient be in a better condition before surgery is needed
-and it help with nutritional support after surgery

116
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What are the risks of TPN?

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  • catheter sepsis (b/c you are introducing something in your body & leaving it there)
    -Very costly
    -You can end up with hyperglycemia or hypoglycemia
    -you can have live disease or damage
    -can end up with blood clots
    -kidney disease
    -bone disease
    -volume overload
    -you can end up with fluid and electrolyte complications
117
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What are the Electrolytes and Mineral Abnormalities Associated with TPN?

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It’s when they are either not getting enough or too much

-Hypernatremia
-Hyponatremia
-Hyperkalemia
-Hypokalemia
-Hyperchloremia
-Hypercalcemia
-Hypocalcemia
-Hypophosphatemia
-Hypomagnesemia

(not enough/too much sodium, not enough or too much Potassium, too much Cl, too much/not enough Vit D, not enough phosphate, not enough magnesium intake)

118
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So what would help with preventing electrolyte and mineral abnormalities associated with TPN?

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TPN Compounder System.

-This particular system transfer up to 24 ingredients into a final sterile container. Usually done by a pharmacist.

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