Vitamin Deficiencies

Question 1

Night blindness, xerophtalmia, blindness.
Squamous metaplasia
Vulnerability to infection, particularly measles

Answer 1

Vit A deficiency

Question 2

Rickets in children

Osteomalacia in adults

Answer 2

Vit D deficiency

Question 3

Spinocerebellar degeneration

Answer 3

Vit E deficiency

Question 4

Bleeding diathesis

Answer 4

Vit K deficiency

Question 5

Dry and wet beriberi, Wernicke syndrome, Korsakoff syndrome

Answer 5

Vit B1 deficiency (thiamine)

Question 6

Ariboflavinosis, cheilosis, stomatitis, glossitis, dermatitis, corneal vascularization

Answer 6

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency

Question 7

Pellegra - the “three D’s”

dementia, dermatitis, diarrhea

Answer 7

Niacin deficiency

Question 8

Cheilosis, glossitis, dermatitis, peripheral neuropathy

Maintenance of myelinization of spinal cord tracts

Answer 8

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) deficiency

Question 9

Megaloblastic pernicious anemia and degeneration of posterolateral spinal cord tracts

Answer 9

Vitamin B12 deficiency

Question 10

Scurvy

Answer 10

Vitamin C deficiency

Question 11

Megaloblastic anemia, neural tube defects

Answer 11

Folate deficiency

Question 12

No non-experimanta syndrome recognized

Answer 12

Pantothenic acid deficiency

Question 13

No clearly defined clinical syndrome

Answer 13

Biotin

Question 14

Rash around eyes, mouth, nose and anus called acrodermatitis enteropathica
anorexia and diarrhea
Growth retardation in children
depressed mental function
depressed wound healing and immune response
impaired night vision
infertility

Answer 14

zinc deficiency

Question 15

hypochromic microcytic anemia

Answer 15

Iron deficiency

Question 16

Goiter and hypothyroidism

Answer 16

iodine deficiency

Question 17

Muscle weakness, neurologic defects, abnormal collagen cross linking

Answer 17

Copper deficiency

Question 18

dental caries

Answer 18

flouride deficiency

Question 19

myopathy, cardiomyopathy (Keshan disease)

Answer 19

selenium deficiency