Vitamin Flashcards
Biotin is a coenzyme for reactions involving:
Carboxylation
Folic acid is important for which of the following processes?
One carbon metabolism
Which of the following is the coenzyme form of Thiamine?
TPP (Thiamine pyrophosphate)
A 3 –year-old girl has been brought for consultation. She is well below the 5th percentile for both height and weight with multiple rachitic deformities of the skeleton to include severe bowing of the tibias bilaterally, pigeon chest and thickened/widened wrists bilaterally. Which of the following vitamins can be recommended as a part of treatment?
Vitamin D
A 2 –year-old child presented with chronic cough and Bronchitis, growth failure and passage of light-colored, foul-smelling stools. Mother of the child reported that the child was finding it difficult to locate things in the dim light and during night-time. Which of the following vitamins might be deficient in this child?
Vitamin A
A term infant is born and does well with breast-feeding. Two days later, the mother calls frantically because baby is bleeding from the umbilical cord and nostrils. Which of the following vitamins might be deficient in this baby?
Vitamin K
Choose the odd one out-
. Vitamin C
Which of the following is not a clinical outcome of niacin deficiency
Night blindness
The active form of vitamin D is
Calcitriol
A 70-year-smoker presents with weight loss, blood in the sputum, and fatigue. Imaging shows a nodule in his lung that is diagnosed as cancer by biopsy. It has been proposed that reactive oxygen species may induce mutagenesis
and contribute to the initiation of cancer. Which of the following is an antioxidant vitamin?
Vitamin C
What is the link between intake of polished rice and sudden cardiac failure?
Thiamin deficiency
Which of the following vitamins is required for the transfer of one carbon
fragments?
Folic acid
