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Summary Of: Pellagra

Pellagra is an endemic disease in... The main results of pellagra can easily be remembered as... Pellagra can be common in people who obtain most of their... Pellagra can be treated with niacin... Pellagra became common only when corn became a staple that was eaten without the traditional treatment... Pellagra was first described in... Because pellagra outbreaks occurred in regions where... the idea was considered that the causes of pellagra may be due to factors other than toxins... pellagra reached epidemic proportions in the American South... 306 reported pellagra deaths in South Carolina during the first ten months of 1915... the scientific community held that pellagra was probably caused by a... showed that pellagra was linked to diet by inducing the disease in prisoners... using the Spartanburg Pellagra Hospital as his clinic... that the number of cases of women with pellagra was consistently double the number of cases of afflicted men... Gillman and Gillman related skeletal tissue and pellagra in their research in South African Blacks... of the best evidence for skeletal manifestations of pellagra and the reaction of bone in malnutrition... the epidemic of pellagra in the U... Pellagra deaths in the United States... Clinical and Pathological Study of Chronic Malnutrion and Pellagra in the African... Pellagra and the origin of a myth...

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