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High prevalence of vitamin B-12 insufficiency in patients with Crohn's disease.

DOI

17

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0

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2019

Year

Misora Ao, Hidemi Tsuji, Kenichiro Shide, Yuki Kosaka, Akari Noda, Nobuya Inagaki, Hiroshi Nakase, Kiyoshi Tanaka
PubMed

Abstract

Vitamin B-12 insufficiency and hyperhomocysteinemia were highly prevalent in CD patients. Recently, the significance of extra-intestinal complications of CD has been increasingly recognized, and our finding is likely to be of clinical importance.