Vitamin Matching Review Questions Flashcards
(17 cards)
This vitamin deficiency causes Beriberi.
Thiamin.
Milk and Cheese are good sources of:
Riboflavin and Cobalamin.
What vitamin is not found in any grains, legumes, vegetables, or fruits?
Cobalamin.
What vitamin(s) deficiency causes megaloblastic anemia?
Folate and Cobalamin.
What vitamin deficiency causes irreversible nerve damage?
Cobalamin.
What vitamin toxicity includes permanent numbness/tingling in fingers/toes?
Pyridoxine.
What vitamin deficiency causes Pellagra?
Niacin.
What vitamin is a cofactor in reactions involving amino acids?
Pyridoxine.
What vitamin causes the deficiency disease ‘osteomalacia’?
Cholecalciferol.
What vitamin can be found in good amounts in seeds/nuts and plant oils?
Alpha-tocopherol.
What is active vitamin D?
Calcitriol.
What vitamin deficiency causes hemolytic anemia?
Alpha-tocopherol.
What vitamin toxicity involves skin rash, enlarged liver, increased risk bone fractures
Retinoic acid.
What vitamins are not found in any food?
Calcitriol and 7-dehydrocholesterol.
What vitamin supplements linked to increased risk of lung cancer in smokers, and no benefit to non-smokers?
Beta-carotene.
What vitamin is found in green leafy veggies, works with Vitamin D for calcium absorption from GI tract?
Phylloquinone.
What vitamin needs are partly met by colonic microbial synthesis?
Menaquinone.
