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JOSEPH K. NARAT, M.D.; JOHN A. LOEF, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1937;60(3):449-453.

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EFFECT ON PERISTALSIS

Controversial opinions have been expressed as to whether vitamin B₁ deficiency occurs to any appreciable extent in otherwise healthy persons under the conditions of dietary habits prevailing in the United States.¹ It is evident that a more or less pronounced deficiency may develop as a result of drastic voluntary dietary restrictions or in pathologic conditions associated with inanition, impaired utilization of food or consumption of food poor in vitamin B₁, e. g., gastric ulcer, chronic ulcerative colitis, colectomy or pernicious vomiting of pregnancy. Recognition of the deficiency is difficult, owing to the paucity of clinical symptoms. Beriberi is known to have developed in a patient with a short-circuited small intestine² and in patients with other lesions responsible for gastro-intestinal disorders.³ A lack of vitamin B₁ causes an impairment of digestive secretions and of oxidation of carbohydrates; it also lowers the tone . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Physiology, the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

Footnotes
The vitamin B1 concentrate employed was supplied by Eli Lilly & Co. One cubic centimeter represents 150 Sherman-Chase units of vitamin B1. The concentrate has not been offered for sale and was supplied exclusively for experimental purposes.

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