Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Persons with Intellectual Disability in a Vegetarian Residential Care Community

The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among intellectually disabled persons in a vegetarian remedial community in Israel. In this community, 47 individuals with intellectual disability (ID) live in 7 enlarged families in a kibbutz style agricultural setting...

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Autores principales: Morad, Mohammed, Gringols, Mark, Kandel, Isack, Merrick, Joav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2005
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5936528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15674451
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.11
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description The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among intellectually disabled persons in a vegetarian remedial community in Israel. In this community, 47 individuals with intellectual disability (ID) live in 7 enlarged families in a kibbutz style agricultural setting. These 47 individuals and 17 of their caregivers were screened for vitamin B12 deficiency. There were 25.5% of the disabled vs. 11.8% of the caregivers found to have levels of vitamin B12 lower than 157 pg/ml. It is concluded that persons with ID in this vegetarian residential care community seemed to be at a higher risk for vitamin B12 deficiency.
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spelling pubmed-59365282018-06-03 Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Persons with Intellectual Disability in a Vegetarian Residential Care Community Morad, Mohammed Gringols, Mark Kandel, Isack Merrick, Joav ScientificWorldJournal Research Article The goal of this study was to determine the prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency among intellectually disabled persons in a vegetarian remedial community in Israel. In this community, 47 individuals with intellectual disability (ID) live in 7 enlarged families in a kibbutz style agricultural setting. These 47 individuals and 17 of their caregivers were screened for vitamin B12 deficiency. There were 25.5% of the disabled vs. 11.8% of the caregivers found to have levels of vitamin B12 lower than 157 pg/ml. It is concluded that persons with ID in this vegetarian residential care community seemed to be at a higher risk for vitamin B12 deficiency. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2005-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5936528/ /pubmed/15674451 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2005.11 Text en Copyright © 2005 Mohammed Morad et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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