Angular stomatitis and riboflavin status among adolescent Bhutanese refugees living in southeastern Nepal | Zendy

Heidi M. Blanck | Zendy; Barbara A. Bowman | Zendy; Mary K. Serdula | Zendy; Laura Kettel Khan | Zendy; William Kohn | Zendy; Bradley A. Woodruff | Zendy

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Angular stomatitis and riboflavin status among adolescent Bhutanese refugees living in southeastern Nepal

Author(s) -

Heidi M. Blanck,

Barbara A. Bowman,

Mary K. Serdula,

Laura Kettel Khan,

William Kohn,

Bradley A. Woodruff

Publication year - 2002

Publication title -

american journal of clinical nutrition

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1938-3207

pISSN - 0002-9165

DOI - 10.1093/ajcn/76.2.430

Subject(s) - riboflavin , medicine , glutathione reductase , odds ratio , vitamin , physiology , environmental health , biology , food science , oxidative stress , catalase , glutathione peroxidase

Between 1990 and 1993, fear of ethnic persecution led 83,000 ethnic Nepalese to flee from Bhutan to refugee camps in Nepal, where they remained at the time of this study. Reported cases of angular stomatitis (AS), ie, thinning or fissuring at the mouth angles, increased 6-fold from December 1998 to March 1999, from 5.5 to 35.6 cases per 1000 per month. This increase came after the removal of a fortified cereal from rations.

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