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Title

Nutrition

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Subject

Pathology

Level

Graduate

Created

09/29/2009

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Term

thiamine

Definition

Vitamin B1.

Term

Source of B1

Definition

Bran, Hulls of cereal grains.

Lack in refined flour and sugar.

Term

Thiamine Function

Definition

Generation of ATP

+

Maintenance of peripheral nerve conduction

Term

Who gets Thiamine Deficiency

Definition

- Chronic Alcoholics

- conditions with vomiting or diarrhea

- Impaired appetite

- food fads.

Term

Wet Beriberi

Definition

Cardiomyopathy

with

Congestive Heart Failure.