Open AccessVitamin B12 Deficiency: An Important Reversible Co-Morbidity in Neuropsychiatric Manifestations
Author(s) -
Thomas Gregor Issac,
Soundarya Soundararajan,
Rita Christopher,
Sadanandavalli Retnaswami Chandra
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.150809
Subject(s) - vitamin b12 , medicine , dementia , pediatrics , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , vitamin d deficiency , neurology , disease , vitamin d and neurology
Vitamin B12 deficiency is a common condition causing neurologic, cognitive, psychiatric, and mood symptoms. With varied religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic heterogeneity among the people in India greatly influencing their dietary habits and with the high prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection, Vitamin B12 deficiency is not uncommon, but is often under recognized due to the lack of classical symptomatic presentation.