Sentences with phrase «called pellagra»

Lysine deficiency can result in vitamin B3 (niacin) deficiency and this can cause a disease called pellagra [7].

A deficiency of Vitamin B3 causes a disease called pellagra but niacin has been used for over 50 years to lower total cholesterol levels while raising HDL cholesterol concentrations.

In people who subsist on a diet of mostly corn, that niacin deficiency can result in a disease called pellagra.

Some of the symptoms she saw in both the mothers and surviving pups resembled those of a debilitating disease called pellagra.

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The P - P Factor Goldberger focused on identifying the missing dietary element, which he called the P - P factor, for pellagra preventive.

They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called «Goldberger's filth parties.»