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This chapter is entitled thiamine deficiency in serious illness and will examine relatively recent descriptions of the development of thiamine deficiency in various cancers, gastric bypass surgery, etc. Predating these discoveries have been thorough descriptions in prisoners of the development of thiamine deficiency. These cases are different from those in various cancers in that they are clearly based on dietary inadequacies. They are similar however in that these men were seriously ill and have no other counterpart in clinical medicine. Therefore a comprehensive study and review of this prisoner condition is synopsized here (Denny-Brown, D., 1947).
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McCandless, D.W. (2010). Thiamine Deficiency in Serious Illness. In: Thiamine Deficiency and Associated Clinical Disorders. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-311-4_10
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