Examples of deficiency disease

• Despite the presence of the "de novo" pathway, the salvage reactions are essential in humans; a lack of niacin in the diet causes the vitamin deficiency disease pellagra.

• Genzymes business focused on enzyme deficiency diseases.

• Normal adults, including old people, have sufficient calcium stored in their bones to prevent them taking any deficiency disease.

• Good application during that war almost eliminated nutritional deficiency disease in this country.

• It is not to say that there are not many thousands of children throughout the country suffering severely from diseases like the protein deficiency disease kwashikhor and other deficiency diseases.

• Dental caries cannot be classified as a fluorine deficiency disease until it has been demonstrated that inadequate amounts of fluorine in the diet invariably produce the disease.

• There is no deficiency disease known to result solely from selenium deficiency, although a specific cardiomyopathy may occur with low selenium intakes which responds to selenium.

• As early as 1755, pellagra was recognized by doctors as being a niacin deficiency disease.