Sentences with phrase «for pellagra»

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

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The potential for a widespread pellagra outbreak surged in flood - ravaged areas of Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.

One of the first doctors who made the connection to pellagra was James Babcock of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane.

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.

My symptoms were identical to pellagra, and maybe Niacin is the answer for me.

Vitamin B3 deficiency lasting for few months [7] causes pellagra (Italian pella agra = rough skin) with «four D» symptoms: dermatitis with burn - like blisters and later rough, scaly and painful, but not itchy, lesions on the sun - exposed areas (face, extension side of the hands / arms and leg / feet), diarrhea, dementia and death (if not treated)[1].

The pellagra epidemic lasted for nearly four decades beginning in 1906.