Table 1 Vitamin deficiency and clinical manifestation

Vitamin A

Xerophthalmia, blindness, high child mortality due to an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and metabolic disorders

⁶

Vitamin B₃ (niacin)

Pellagra

⁷

Vitamin B₁₂

Glossitis, megaloblastic anemia, myelin deterioration

⁸

Vitamin C

Weakness, myalgia and arthralgia, vascular purpura and hemorrhagic syndrome, loss of teeth, anemia, hypocholesterolemia and hypoalbuminemia, scurvy, blood vessel fragility, connective tissue damage

^{9, 10}

Vitamin D

Rickets

¹¹

Vitamin E

Neuromuscular abnormalities characterized by spinocerebellar ataxia and myopathies

¹²

Vitamin K

Bulging fontanels, irritabilities, convulsions, bleeding and ecchymosis, feeding intolerance, poor sucking, vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, pallor

¹³