Manual on vitamin A deficiency disorders part 6
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Sort Desciption: ... xerophthalmia as a vitamin deficiency dis- ease lagged ... Other nutritional deficiencies, especially PEM. of mild degree, are often also present and this ...
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It can be instructive, on occasion, to look back in time and speculate about the reasons why events in history took the path they did. In Chapter 5 it was pointed out that recognition of xerophthalmia as a vitamin deficiency disease lagged behind that of several other diseases of nutritional aetiology. In the present context it is a cause of surprise that widespread acceptance of the significant impact of vitamin A on mortality and morbidity has come only in recent years (Semba, 1999). ...
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