Pellagra (Noun)
Meaning
A disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- Pellagra was once prevalent in certain parts of the United States where people lived primarily on a diet of corn and had little access to meat, eggs, and dairy products.
- Historians and clinicians once suspected that the niacin-deficiency disease pellagra might have contributed to the condition.
- Chronic pellagra in individuals and even epidemic outbreaks among whole communities led scientists to link niacin and the health problem together.
- Cachexia or weakness may lead to reduced stomach acidity which contributes to decreased availability of the vitamins from pellagra or can develop simultaneously as two concurrent clinical diseases.
- Pelagra cases appear because most cereal-based staple diets include various protein-inhibiting nutritional stress that provokes growth abnormalities due to absence of particular critical substances for all bio-basal tissues growth maintenance that exists without required constant medical interplay guidance interventionism medical relief maintenance pellagra deficiency exists nutrition intake regular problems even those containing abundant all kind corn because modern non indigenous other similar population no problems foods protein protein with an apparent extreme total disease dependency disorder management needed solution just giving as shown up long through chronic very needed vitamins some sources provide, by certain standards modern technology needs standard levels intervention still maintain great some higher always non pelagrada chronic great danger unceasingly.