PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | vitamin b12 deficiency |
| Phenotype | C0002892|pernicious anaemia |
| Sentences | 3 |
| PubMedID- 21868809 | Although pernicious anaemia is associated with severe vitamin b12 deficiency, evidence of an association between subnormal vitamin b12 and anaemia in older persons in the general population is limited and inconclusive. |
| PubMedID- 22489214 | Water-soluble vitamins such as folate are important for reducing the risk of both neural tube defects (ntds) (13) heart disease by lowering homocysteine levels (14), whilst vitamin b12 deficiency is associated with pernicious anaemia in infants (15) and elderly populations and patients with intestinal disease (16, 17). |
| PubMedID- 20573208 | Background: pernicious anaemia is undeniably associated with vitamin b12 deficiency, but the association between subnormal vitamin b12 concentrations and anaemia in older people is unclear. |
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