vitamin deficiency

基本解釋

The integumentary system (which includes hair and nails) is often the first place that a serious vitamin deficiency shows up.
當維生素缺乏時，首先會變現(xiàn)在表皮系統(tǒng)（包括毛發(fā)和指甲）。
deficiency is the most frequently encountered vitamin deficiency in the U.S., but vegetarian women consume more folic acid on average than meat-eaters.
缺乏葉酸是美國最常見的維生素缺乏癥，但食素的婦女比食肉的平均葉酸食用量要多。
Don: Vitamins, Yael. I'm really into my health these days. I take a pill for nearly every vitamin my body needs. I'm insuring myself against vitamin deficiency.
維他命。這些天我很關(guān)心我的健康。我吃的這藥片幾乎涵蓋了所有我身體需要的維他命。我正在預(yù)防維他命匱乏。

Each year an estimated two hundred fifty thousand to half a million children go blind from vitamin A deficiency.
Extreme vitamin D deficiency causes deformities in children and weak bones in adults.
Doctors rarely see these conditions. But studies have linked vitamin D deficiency to a number of serious health problems, including heart disease, several types of cancer, osteoporosis,diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and some autoimmune disorders.

Growing evidence is suggesting that vitamin D deficiency is more common that previously believed, and that vitamin D may play an important role in many common diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
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