Vitamin deficiency

ascorbic acid deficiency: A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into scurvy in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 780 467 313
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.30 0.32 0.28
Mean age at first event (years) 52.24 49.89 55.73

Mortality

Follow-up Absolute risk HR [95% CI] p N
1998–2019 0.06 4.02 [2.55, 6.33] 2.1e-9 126
15 years 0.03 4.50 [2.92, 6.93] 8.3e-12 118
5 years 0.01 6.18 [3.97, 9.61] 6.0e-16 62
1 year - - - -

Correlations

Index endpoint: VIT_DEF – Vitamin deficiency
GWS hits: 0

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Vitamin deficiency
after Vitamin deficiency

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Drugs most likely to be purchased after Vitamin deficiency