The diagnosis of diabetes in itself may be a life event that increases risk of depressive symptoms, arising from the awareness of having a pernicious chronic condition (2).
The reduced expression of this enzyme under pernicious living conditions may indicate an alteration in the lipid metabolism of the worm.
But Dr. Seshadri said people with an uncommon condition, pernicious anemia, might be harmed if they took folic acid without also taking vitamin B12.
A century ago, researchers discovered that some people — most likely including Mary Todd Lincoln — had a condition called pernicious anemia, a deficiency of red blood cells ultimately identified as an autoimmune disease that causes a loss of stomach cells needed for B12 absorption.
Cumulative incidences of other autoimmune conditions, including pernicious anemia (17 women, 4 men) and adrenal disease (2 women, 2 men), were low.
Significant hypergastrinaemia occurs in association with a number of clinical conditions, including pernicious anaemia and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome and following the development of potent acid suppression in response to the administration of proton pump inhibitors (Klingensmith et al, 1999).
One of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, is lingering, pernicious, low-grade depression, a condition that arises from deep irreconcilable conflict.
Intragastric nitrosation has been implicated in the pathogenesis of gastric cancer and in precancerous conditions such as pernicious anaemia and the post-gastrectomy state.
Because NHANES is not well suited for monitoring rare medical conditions such as pernicious anemia, the roundtable found the question posed by Carmel as to whether monitoring the more common subclinical deficiency has public health merit (9) to be a helpful anchor point for their overall dialogue.
This condition, they say, is pernicious, difficult to diagnose, rarely cured, and widely ignored.
