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A fresh look at thiamine deficiency—new analyses by the global thiamine alliance
Author(s) -
Bourassa Megan W.,
Bergeron Gilles,
Brown Kenneth H.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of the new york academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.712
H-Index - 248
eISSN - 1749-6632
pISSN - 0077-8923
DOI - 10.1111/nyas.14594
Subject(s) - thiamine , thiamine deficiency , beriberi , neurocognitive , scope (computer science) , alliance , affect (linguistics) , scholarship , medicine , physiology , psychology , pediatrics , psychiatry , political science , pathology , economic growth , cognition , economics , communication , computer science , law , programming language
Abstract Severe thiamine (vitamin B 1 ) deficiency is generally regarded as a problem affecting mostly infants in low‐income communities of Southeast Asia and adult alcoholics regardless of their location. However, recent scholarship shows that the disorders associated with thiamine deficiency may also affect heretofore unsuspected populations, and that the scope of disorders, including some long‐lasting neurocognitive consequences, is broader than previously thought.