BIOLOGY
VITAMINS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Night blindness
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Rupture of red blood cells
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Rickets
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Nerve disease
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Blood not able to clot properly
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Detailed explanation-1: -Vitamin E deficiency is very rare in healthy people. It is almost always linked to certain diseases in which fat is not properly digested or absorbed. Examples include Crohn’s disease, cystic fibrosis, and certain rare genetic diseases such as abetalipoproteinemia and ataxia with vitamin E deficiency (AVED).
Detailed explanation-2: -Vitamin E deficiency can cause nerve pain (neuropathy). The recommended daily amount of vitamin E for adults is 15 milligrams a day.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vitamin E is essential for normal neurological function. It is the major lipid-soluble, chain-breaking antioxidant in the body, protecting the integrity of membranes by inhibiting lipid peroxidation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Its deficiency is related to anaemia due to reduced RBCs lifespan due to increased vulnerability to free-radical-induced RBCs. It causes increased fragility of RBCs and muscular weakness in the body. The correct answer of this question is option (c) which says deficiency of vitamin E causes muscular weakness.