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Underdeveloped digestive system, nutrients do not spend adequate time in the digestive tract for water to be absorbed which leads to diarrhea. [9] Imbalanced Diet — a diet that has excess fiber and/or a lack of fat, fat can slow down the digestion process and prolong the amount of time nutrients spend in the tract which increases absorption.
After that happens, plasma retinol concentration falls to lower than 20 μg/dL, signifying a state of vitamin A inadequacy. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] [ 45 ] It is the leading cause of preventable childhood blindness, afflicting 250,000 to 500,000 malnourished children in the developing world each year, about half of whom die within a year of becoming blind ...
Dementia risk rose by 14% when people ate about 1 ounce of processed red meat a day — the equivalent of slightly less than two 3-ounce servings a week — compared with people who only ate about ...
Pellagra is a disease caused by a lack of the vitamin niacin (vitamin B 3). [2] Symptoms include inflamed skin, diarrhea, dementia, and sores in the mouth. [1] Areas of the skin exposed to friction and radiation are typically affected first. [1]
Dementia due to Pick's disease: Coded 290.10 in the DSM-IV. 294.8: Dementia NOS: 294.xx: Dementia of the Alzheimer's type, with early onset: Coded 290.xx in the DSM-IV. 290.10: Dementia of the Alzheimer's type, with early onset, uncomplicated: Included only in the DSM-IV. 294.11: Dementia of the Alzheimer's type, with early onset, with ...
This study suggests that for those with cardiometabolic diseases, like heart disease, type 2 diabetes and/or stroke, their risk of developing dementia decreased by 31% when eating a diet high in ...
Dementia may occur when neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular pathologies are mixed, as in susceptible elderly people (75 years and older). [2] [5] Cognitive decline can be traced back to occurrence of successive strokes. [4] ICD-11 lists vascular dementia as dementia due to cerebrovascular disease. [1]
Patients with various forms of dementia have impairments in their activities of daily living including eating, and eating disorders have been found in patients with dementia. Patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) tend to have an eating disorder where they have food cravings and difficulty controlling the amount and type of food eaten but ...