Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant diarrhea, dementia, dermatitis. Physicians have known for nearly 25 years that small amounts of ...

Goldberger's volunteers were given the poor Southern diet he had seen associated with pellagra. That was the only difference. The other inmates ate the usual farm fare. Every effort was made to ...

Pellagra, which is characterized by the three "d's" — dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia — can even cause the fourth "d" — death — if left untreated. Pellagra comes from a severe ...

Now, archaeologists in Poland have discovered the graves of two 13th-century children, one of which that may have been feared ...

It’s also key for treating pellagra—a niacin deficiency—since it doesn’t cause flushing like nicotinic acid does. Niacinamide ...

Niacin (nicotinic acid) is used to prevent and treat niacin deficiency (pellagra). Riboflavin (vitamin B2) is used to prevent or treat low levels of vitamin B2 in people who do not get enough of ...

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In advance of Duke's Founders' Day Centennial Celebration Weekend, The Chronicle looks back on the University's original ...

pellagra, scurvy, scabies, pediculosis, seborrheic dermatitis, eczematous dermatitis, rosacea, and pruritus. [36,37,38,39] The incidence of skin disease is largely determined by a complex set of ...

It led to the creation of the vampire myth as diseases like porphyria caused sensitivity to light, tuberculosis caused weight loss, pellagra caused thinning of the skin and rabies caused biting ...