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The role of vitamin E in the treatment of the neurological features of abetalipoproteinaemia and other disorders of fat absorption
Author(s) -
Muller D. P. R.,
Lloyd J. K.,
Wolff O. H.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of inherited metabolic disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1573-2665
pISSN - 0141-8955
DOI - 10.1007/bf01800666
Subject(s) - malabsorption , vitamin , malabsorption syndromes , medicine , endocrinology , vitamin e deficiency , vitamin e , fat soluble vitamin , absorption (acoustics) , chemistry , biochemistry , antioxidant , physics , acoustics
Studies in patients with abetalipoproteinaemia and other chronic and severe fat malabsorptive states, and neuropathological studies in the vitamin E‐deficient human, monkey and rat indicate that vitamin E is important for normal neurological function. Appropriate vitamin E supplementation is, therefore, advisable for all patients with chronic fat malabsorption who have low serum vitamin E concentrations.