Vitamins in illness.

ANTIOXIDANT VITAMINS IN DIABETES

The study included nineteen control subjects and fifty-nine diabetic patients. The diabetic patients were divided according to the treatment they received. Fasting blood glucose was markedly increased in all three groups, while low serum vitamin A, C and E levels were observed in diabetic patients as compared to control subjects.

Corticosteroids in Neurological and Mental Illness

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Vitamins in Western diets

Vitamins are now available at reasonable prices, much is known about modes of action and there is a rich literature on dietary surveys. Forty years ago the classical deficiency diseases were rampant and Edward Mellanby used to say that the difficulty was ‘to get vitamins down the throats of those who need them’. Since that time normal diets have improved and welfare schemes have been adopted so...

The Vitamins in Medicine

Vitamins in the sea.

N early half of all photosynthesis happens in the oceans, in communities of microscopic microbial plankton that can vary greatly in time and space. On the one hand these communities are ephemeral, changing with changing ocean conditions, but on the other they can be counted on to cycle in predictable patterns driven by seasons, weather, and ocean currents (1, 2). In PNAS, Sañudo-Wilhelmy et al....