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beriberi
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ber·i·ber·i
/ ˈberēˈberē/
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n.
a disease causing inflammation of the nerves and heart failure, caused by a deficiency of vitamin B1.
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The Great Disease Enemy, Kak'ke (Beriberi) and the Imperial Japanese Army
Magazine article from: Military Medicine; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...that an improved diet could prevent beriberi by the late 19th century, their soldiers in the army suffered from beriberi during the Russo-Japanese War and...used during World War II. However, beriberi again plagued Japanese soldiers...
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Fed: nursing home beriberi case cause for concern doctor
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/4/2000; 340 words
; ...Australia) 10-04-2000 Fed: nursing home beriberi case cause for concern doctor It's...developed the vitamin deficiency disease beriberi was almost as wasted as a World War II...one of his patients developed severe beriberi, almost as bad as cases he saw when...
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Beriberi, white rice and vitamin B. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Nutrition & Dietetics: The Journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...Cambridge University Press, 1986). Beriberi, white rice and vitamin B is an historical...particularly in Asia. This book is mostly about beriberi of the heart and the peripheral nervous...retrospect, the unravelling of the cause of beriberi and the discovery of its cure was a mammoth...
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Chinese worker dies of beriberi
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/3/2003; ; 506 words
; ...0000 Headline: Chinese worker dies of beriberi Byline: JUDY SIEGEL Edition; Daily...Page: 04 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 -- Beriberi, a disease of the nerves of the arms...were too developed to save him, and beriberi was found to be the cause of death only...
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BERIBERI, WHITE RICE, AND VITAMIN B.(Review)
Magazine article from: Food Trade Review; 5/1/2000; 543 words
; ...Americans Call a Meeting; The Isolation and Construction of a Vitamin; Chemical Analyses of Foods: Explanations and Surprises; Beriberi Without White Rice; How Much Thiamin Do We Need?; How Should the Knowledge be Used?; Aspects of the Subject in Hindsight...
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HAITI: MYSTERIOUS PRISON AILMENT TRACED TO U.S. RICE.
News Wire article from: Interpress Service; 1/18/2007; 700+ words
; ...investigation into the deadly scourge of beriberi in Haiti's National Penitentiary uncovered...deteriorated, culminating in the outbreak of beriberi, a potentially fatal disease caused...an investigation into the mysterious beriberi deaths of otherwise healthy prisoners...
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HAITI: MYSTERIOUS PRISON AILMENT TRACED TO U.S. RICE
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 1/18/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...investigation into the deadly scourge of beriberi in Haiti's National Penitentiary uncovered...deteriorated, culminating in the outbreak of beriberi, a potentially fatal disease caused...an investigation into the mysterious beriberi deaths of otherwise healthy prisoners...
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Congestive cardiac failure and anemia in a 15-year-old boy
Magazine article from: Journal of Postgraduate Medicine; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...deficiency or predisposing factors for beriberi, and repeated stool examinations being...causes of high output heart failure is wet beriberi due to thiamine deficiency. [1] However...empirical use of vitamin B complex. Beriberi results from deficiency of thiamine...
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The beri-beri scourge.(Opinion)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin; 9/30/2009; 700+ words
; ...diagnosed its symptoms as “beriberi” or “kakke...baffling declaration that the occurence of beriberi in epidemic proportions was unimpeachable...that unknown afflictions, among them beriberi, were the dire consequences of crop...
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MALAYSIA-HUMAN RIGHTS: BANGLADESHIS STARVE IN MALAYSIAN CAMPS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 7/28/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...number of causes including typhoid fever and beriberi, a disease caused by vitamin B1 deficiency...Zuillur Rahman was one Bangladeshi who died of beriberi at Semenyih in May. Both beriberi and typhoid are rare in Malaysia, one of the...
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beriberi
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
beriberi The result of severe and prolonged deficiency...alcohol abuse; while it may result in beriberi, more commonly the result is central...Wernicke‐Korsakoff syndrome . In beriberi there is degeneration of peripheral nerves...
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Beriberi
Book article from: Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
Beriberi Thiamin, or vitamin B 1 , is a water-soluble vitamin that plays a role...such people are deficient in substantial amounts of vitamins and minerals . Beriberi is a clinical manifestation of thiamin deficiency. Symptoms include nervous...
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Casimir Funk
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...hormonal system. His work led to the prevention of beriberi, rickets, scurvy, and other diseases caused by...the institute, gave Funk another problem to study: beriberi. Beriberi is a disease of the peripheral nerves that causes...
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Funk, Casimir
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...where he was soon assigned to work on beriberi. In 1914 he married Denise Schneidesch...rice polishings which was curative for beriberi in pigeons. In 1912 he proposed the...amounts for the cure or prevention of beriberi, scurvy, rickets, and pellagra. His...
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Eijkman, Christiaan
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...other eastern countries a disease called beriberi was spreading, especially in closed...years the committee had shown that in beriberi a polyneuritis could be proved by clinical...believed it had isolated from the blood of beriberi patients the causative agent: a micrococcus...
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