News tagged with b12
Vitamins doing gymnastics: Scientists capture first full image of vitamin B12 in action
You see it listed on the side of your cereal box and your multivitamin bottle. It's vitamin B12, part of a nutritious diet like all those other vitamins and minerals.
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Vegans' elevated heart risk requires omega-3s and B12
People who follow a vegan lifestyle — strict vegetarians who try to eat no meat or animal products of any kind — may increase their risk of developing blood clots and atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries," ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Vitamin B12 may reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease
A new study shows that vitamin B12 may protect against Alzheimer's disease, adding more evidence to the scientific debate about whether the vitamin is effective in reducing the risk of memory loss. The research will be published ...
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Study examines outcomes of lowering homocysteine levels with folic acid and vitamin B12
Patients who had experienced a heart attack and lowered their blood homocysteine levels with folic acid and vitamin B12 supplementation did not have an associated lower risk of heart attack, coronary death or stroke, according ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 22, 2010 |
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B vitamin therapy linked with decline in kidney function for some kidney disease patients
Patients with diabetic nephropathy (kidney disease caused by diabetes) who received high dose B-vitamin therapy experienced a more rapid decline in kidney function and had a higher rate of heart attack and stroke than patients ...
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Apr 27, 2010 |
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Study identifies food combination associated with reduced Alzheimer's disease risk
Individuals whose diet includes more salad dressing, nuts, fish, poultry and certain fruits and vegetables and fewer high-fat dairy products, red meats, organ meats and butter appear less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 12, 2010 |
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An etiological role for H. pylori in autoimmune gastritis
Autoimmune type atrophic gastritis is a severe gastric atrophy associated with vitamin B12 deficiency. The reason for the disappearance of acid secreting cells from gastric mucosa is not fully understood, but the role of ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 14, 2010 |
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Autism treatment: Risky alternative therapies have little basis in science
James Coman's son has an unusual skill. The 7-year-old, his father says, can swallow six pills at once. Diagnosed with autism as a toddler, the Chicago boy had been placed on an intense regimen of supplements and medications ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Treatment with folic acid, vitamin B12 associated with increased risk of cancer, death
Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Commentary warns of unexpected consequences of proton pump inhibitor use in reflux disease
Despite being highly effective and beneficial for many patients, unexpected consequences are emerging in patients who are prescribed proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) for reflux diseases. Physicians are warned to monitor these ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Low levels of vitamin B12 may increase risk for neural tube defects
Children born to women who have low blood levels of vitamin B12 shortly before and after conception may have an increased risk of a neural tube defect, according to an analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of ...
Mar 02, 2009 |
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Discovery of ionic elemental crystal against chemical intuition
An ETH Zurich researcher has developed a computational method for predicting the structure of materials. He used it to solve the structure of a newly synthesized form of pure boron that displays some unusual physical properties ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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