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Vitamins and Nutrition Flashcards

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Vitamins

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Small molecules important as cofactors in many biological/enzymatic reactions

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Deficiency

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Due to either inadequate diet, inadequate GI absorption, competing organisms (e.g., 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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Vitamin B1 other name and function

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  • Thiamine
  • Coenzyme for energy metabolism
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Vitamin B2 other name and function

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  • Riboflavin
  • Precursor for coenzymes FMN or FAD, redox reactions
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Vitamin B3 other name and function

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  • Niacin
  • Precursor to coenzyme NAD, dehydrogenase reactions
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Vitamin B5 other name and function

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  • Pantothenic acid
  • Component of Coenzyme A
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Vitamin B6 other name and function

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  • Pyridoxine
  • Aa metabolism and transport, heme synthesis
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Vitamin B7 other name and function

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  • Biotin
  • Coenzyme for carboxyl unit transfer
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Vitamin B12 other name and function

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  • Cyanocobalamin
  • Hematopoiesis, fatty acid metabolism
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Folate/folic acid (vit B9) function

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Coenzyme for one-carbon transfer reactions and aa metabolism

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Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) function

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  • hydrogen ion transfer
  • redox reactions
  • aa metabolism
  • collagen synthesis
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Vit A (retinol) function

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  • Vision
  • Cell differentiation
  • Growth
  • Reproduction
  • Immune system function
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Vitamin D function

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controls calcium and phosphate metabolism

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Vitamin E function

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  • Antioxidant
  • Peroxide breakdown
  • Cellular integrity
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Vitamin K function

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Cofactor for post-translational carboxylation of many proteins and clotting factors. Give Vit K shots to newborns to aid clotting

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Biochemically, vitamins are most easily studied within groups defined by ___

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hydrophobicity

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19
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List fat-soluble vitamins

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A, D, E, K

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Water soluble-vitamins

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Vit C
B1, B3, riboflavin, B5, B6, B7, B12

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Fat soluble vitamin solubility properties

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  • Dissolve in fat before bloodstream absorption
  • Process requires bile acids from the liver
  • Carried by lipoproteins
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Vit E carried by which lipoprotein?

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LDL

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Fat soluble vitamins mainly stored where? Where do they go if not stored?

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  • Intestines, liver, and fatty tissues
  • Greater risk of toxicity due to storage
  • Excreted in feces if not stored
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Water soluble vitamin storage and elimination

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  • Not stored in body, so less chance of toxicity
  • Regularly eliminated in urine and feces
  • Constant re-supply needed
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Water soluble vitamin toxicity

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Less chance of toxicity BUT impaired secretion in renal damage

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Major site of vitamin absorption

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Small intestine

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Vitamin metabolism pathway

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  1. Nutrients enter at cellular level
  2. Picked up and absorbed by blood capillaries and lymph fluids thru active transport/diffusion/osmosis
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Where are Vitamin B12 and Vitamin K metabolized?

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Large intestine

29
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List most commonly assayed vitamines

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  • Folate (Vit B9)
  • Vit B12
  • Vit D
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ID the vitamin
Most common vitamin deficiency
Can lead to megaloblastic anemia

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Folate (Vit B9)

31
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Which pathologies depend on normal folate levels (feature folate deficiency)?

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  • Megaloblastic anemia
  • Neural tube defects
  • Increased levels of atherosclerosis related to homocysteine turnover on appropos vitamin levels
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Folate tested on which sample types?

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Serum and RBC hemolysate

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ID the vitamin
Absorption dependent on Intrinsic Factor
Associated with megaloblastic anemia/pernicious anemia
Transcobalamins transport this vitamin

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Vit B12 (cyanocobalamin)

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Vit B12 testing

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Serum or plasma
Similar to folate assays

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T/F
Lots of foods contain Vit D

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False

36
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Vit D important for assessing what?

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  • parathyroid function
  • bone development
  • chronic renal failure
  • monitoring vit D therapy
  • vit D toxicity
  • small bowel disease
  • pancreatic insufficiency
  • drug-related hypovitaminosis
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Vit D from the diet or skin synthesis is biologically ___

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inactive

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What is required for Vit D activation?

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Enzymatic conversion in liver and kidney

39
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Marasmus

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  • Diet deficient in both protein and calories
  • Most severe -> general wasting
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Kwashiorkor

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  • Diet adequate in calories but deficient in protein
  • Less severe than marasmus
  • Visceral muscle protein loss but no skeletal muscle loss
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Negative outcomes of malnutrition

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  • Increased mortality/morbidity
  • Impaired wound healing
  • Increased rate of infection
  • Increased length of hospital stay
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Lab methods to assess nutritional status

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  • selected protein markers most useful
  • hematology assays (Hgb, Hct, WBC, lymphs)
  • immunology assays (increased TDT, cytokine levels)
  • non-protein chemistry (vitamin analysis, BUN/creatinine, cholesterol/triglyceride, mineral levels)
43
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List protein markers used to assess nutritional status

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  • transferrin
  • pre-albumin (transports T4 and retinol)
  • retinol-binding protein (RBP) (vit A transport)
  • albumin/aa/IGF-1/leptin
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T/F
One single protein marker can assess overall nutritional status

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False, need more

45
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Protein markers may provide info on:

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  • metabolic status
  • determining prognosis
  • monitoring of nutrition support
46
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Useful protein combo to assess nutritional status

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Plasma markers (usually pre-albumin/transthyretin) + acute phase reactant like CRP

47
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What does the following indicate:
Normal CRP
Low pre-albumin

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Protein malnutrition

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What does the following indicate:
Significantly increased CRP
Low pre–albumin

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There may be false decrease in pre-albumin

49
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What CRP and pre-albumin lab results indicate improving protein nutrition status?

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Decreasing CRP and increasing pre-albumin

50
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Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)

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Necessary if GIT not properly functioning or when patient cannot take anything by mouth

51
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TPN complications

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  • fluid/electrolyte imbalance
  • acid-base imbalance
  • glycosuria
  • hyperglycemia
  • liver/hematologic abnormalities
  • vitamin/mineral deficiencies

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