The role of vitamin E in the treatment of the neurological features of abetalipoproteinaemia and other disorders of fat absorption | Zendy

Muller D. P. R. | Zendy; Lloyd J. K. | Zendy; Wolff O. H. | Zendy

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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.

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