Question

What are deficiency diseases?
Name four types of deficiency diseases?​

Answer 1

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★ What is a deficiency

disease?!

→ a disease caused by the lack of an element in the diet, usually a particular vitamin or mineral

★ Egs.:-

→ Calcium :- Osteoporosis, Rickets, Tetany.

→Iodine deficiency:- Goiter.

→ Selenium deficiency:- Keshan disease.

→ Iron deficiency:- anemia.

→ Zinc:- Growth retardation.

→ Thiamine (Vitamin B1):- Beriberi.

→ Niacin (Vitamin B3):- Pellagra.

→Vitamin C:- Scurvy.

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