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Generic Name Chemical Name Deficiency Disease Overdose Disease Food Sources

The document lists various vitamins, their chemical names, deficiency diseases associated with a lack of each vitamin, potential overdose effects, and common food sources. It provides information on vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, C, D, E, and K. The vitamins are essential nutrients that must be obtained through diet to prevent deficiency diseases and support many bodily functions.

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Generic Name Chemical Name Deficiency Disease Overdose Disease Food Sources

The document lists various vitamins, their chemical names, deficiency diseases associated with a lack of each vitamin, potential overdose effects, and common food sources. It provides information on vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B7, B9, B12, C, D, E, and K. The vitamins are essential nutrients that must be obtained through diet to prevent deficiency diseases and support many bodily functions.

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Generic name

Vitamer chemical name Deficiency disease

Overdose disease

Food sources Liver, orange, ripe yellow fruits, leafy vegetables, carrots, pumpkin, squash, spinach, soy milk, milk Pork, oatmeal, brown rice, vegetables, potatoes, liver, eggs Dairy products, bananas, popcorn, green beans, asparagus Meat, fish, eggs, many vegetables, mushrooms, tree nuts Meat, broccoli, avocados Meat, vegetables, tree nuts, bananas Raw egg yolk, liver, peanuts, certain vegetables

Vitamin A

Retinol, retinal, and Night-blindness, four carotenoids Hyperkeratosis, and including beta carotene Keratomalacia[8]

Hypervitaminosis A

Vitamin B1

Thiamine

Beriberi, WernickeKorsakoff syndrome

Drowsiness or muscle relaxation with large doses.[10]

Vitamin B2

Riboflavin

Ariboflavinosis

Vitamin B3

Niacin, niacinamide

Pellagra

Liver damage

Vitamin B5

Pantothenic acid

Paresthesia

Diarrhea; possibly nausea and heartburn Impairment of proprioception, nerve damage

Vitamin B6

Anemia Pyridoxine, pyridoxamine, pyridoxal peripheral neuropathy.

Vitamin B7

Biotin

Dermatitis, enteritis

Vitamin B9

Folic acid, folinic acid

Megaloblastic anemia and Deficiency during pregnancy is associated with birth defects, such as neural tube defects

May mask symptoms of Leafy vegetables, vitamin B12 deficiency; pasta, bread, cereal, other effects. liver

Vitamin B12

Cyanocobalamin, hydroxycobalamin, methylcobalamin Ascorbic acid

Megaloblastic anemia

[15]

Acne-like rash [causality Meat and other is not conclusively animal products established]. Vitamin C megadosage Many fruits and vegetables, liver

Vitamin C

Scurvy

Generic name Vitamin D

Vitamer chemical name Deficiency disease Cholecalciferol, Ergocalciferol Rickets and Osteomalacia

Overdose disease Hypervitaminosis D Increased congestive heart failure seen in one large randomized study.[18]

Food sources Fish, eggs, liver, mushrooms Many fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds

Vitamin E

Tocopherols, tocotrienols

Deficiency is very rare; mild hemolytic anemia in newborn infants.[17]

Vitamin K

phylloquinone, menaquinones

Bleeding diathesis

Leafy green Increases coagulation in vegetables such as patients taking spinach, egg yolks, warfarin.[19] liver

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