Sentences with word «hypovitaminosis»

The study by Swedish researchers used sequential assessment of serum vitamin D to determine if sustained hypovitaminosis D in elderly women leads to increased 10 - year fracture incidence.

Hypovitaminosis A in cats may exhaust vitamin A reserves of the kidneys and liver; affect reproduction to cause stillbirths, congenital anomalies (hydrocephaly, blindness, hairlessness, deafness, ataxia, cerebellar dysplasia, intestinal hernia), and resorption of fetuses; and cause the same changes in epithelial cells noted in other animals.

Hypovitaminosis C or «scurvy» — Vitamin C is essential for building and repairing collagen.

Diets that are deficient in vitamin D3 will not allow proper calcium absorption (hypovitaminosis D).

Hypovitaminosis A has been implicated in edema in reptiles.

«Hypovitaminosis can have repercussions, be it on breast cancer, vascular disease or metabolic syndrome,» she said.

Full thickness shedding with raw or bleeding areas is clearly abnormal and may be a sign of bacterial or fungal infections, hypovitaminosis A (Vitamin A deficiency), burns or trauma.

Due to over supplementation, poisoning due to excess vitamins (hypervitaminosis) is more common these days than vitamin deficiency (hypovitaminosis).