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    Thiamine deficiency (redirect from Beriberi)
    Konan EY, Tetchi EO, Ekou FK, Ekra D, Coulibaly A, Dagnan NS (2011). "Le béribéri, maladie nutritionnelle récurrente en milieu carcéral en Côte-d'Ivoire"...
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    prevent thiamine deficiency and the disorders that result from it such as beriberi and Wernicke encephalopathy. They are also used to treat maple syrup urine...
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    rice documented 161 crew members with beriberi and 25 deaths, while the latter group had only 14 cases of beriberi and no deaths. This convinced Takaki...
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    physician and scientist whose study of the link between polished rice and beriberi in the Dutch East Indies in 1897 helped lead to the discovery of vitamins...
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    unenriched white rice leaves many people vulnerable to the neurological disease beriberi, due to a deficiency of thiamine (vitamin B1). White rice is often enriched...
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  • extramedullary tuberculoma of the spinal cord Cutaneous sensory disorder Beriberi Decompression sickness occurs during rapid ascent, spanning 20 or more...
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    associated with a diet consisting primarily of maize, while the disease beriberi is associated with a diet of refined white rice. Scurvy can result from...
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    living dinosaurs in Komodo Island in 1910. Vitamin B1 and its relation to beriberi disease was discovered by Eijkman during his work in the Indies. With growing...
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    and medicine. For example, the article on the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi speculates that it is caused by a fungus, vitamins not having been discovered...
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    first time since the 1880s, malnutrition was facilitating the spread of beriberi, tuberculosis and other diseases. The British had a stark choice: accept...
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