Re: Re: Vitamin B12 Supplementation May Benefit Patients with Polyneurop...

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Jan

Can't access the journal article as it needs a subscription. Can you

attach to an email to the group?

I would love to read it as this is an interest of mine esp. thiamine as

I have published on it.

thanks

Marg

Dineright4@... wrote:

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> Another DUH!

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> Amazing - all this research to document what RDs have known for many

> years,

> if they paid attention to the s/s of B vitamin deficiency!

>

> Neuropathy (tingling of extremities) is a classic sign of B-12 (and

> other B

> vitamins) deficiency that I've been addressing for at least 15 years!

> This

> research is NOT new but nice to have updated stuff to show our docs

> when we

> recommend B-12 testing/supplementation with neuropathy patients.

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> hhc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/9/1/29.pdf

> for the full journal article I wrote, documenting research showing

> neuropathies as signs of thiamin, niacin and B-12 deficiencies back in

> 1996

>

> Jan Patenaude, RD, CLT

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> In a message dated 1/16/2008 6:43:32 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,

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> Reference: " Vitamin B12 and Methylmalonic Acid Levels in Patients

> Presenting with Polyneuropathy,Presenting with Polyneuropathy,<WBR> "

> Nerve, 2007; 36(4): 532-535. (Address: RA Nardin, Beth Israel Deaconess

> Medical Center, Department of Neurology, 330 Brookline Avenue, E-CC 810,

> Boston, MA 02215, USA).

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> Summary: In a retrospective cohort study involving 581 patients with

> polyneuropathy, supplementation with vitamin B12 was found to bring

> about significant subjective improvement in symptoms. Of the 581

> subjects, 4% were found to have definite vitamin B12 deficiency (defined

> as 240 pg/ml or less), and 32% were found to have possible vitamin B12

> deficiency (defined as > 240 pg/ml and methylmalonic acid level > 243

> nmol/L). Supplementation with vitamin B12 brought about subjective

> improvement in symptoms in 87% of subjects with definite deficiency, and

> 43% of subjects with possible deficiency. The authors conclude,

> " Possible vitamin B12 deficiency, defined as an elevated MMA level, is a

> common finding in patients with polyneuropathy and treatment of these

> patients with vitamin B12 may lead to clinical improvement.p

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