Skelton W P, Skelton N K
American College of Physicians, James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612.
J Am Podiatr Med Assoc. 1990 May;80(5):254-6. doi: 10.7547/87507315-80-5-254.
Poor nutrition is common throughout the third world. The US also has examples among recent Asian and Latin American immigrants, alcoholics, the homeless, and former prisoners of war. All of these groups are susceptible to long-term pathologic damage, depending on the degree of malnutrition which they experience. The peripheral nervous system is quite vulnerable to impairment and damage from vitamin B loss.
营养不良在整个第三世界都很常见。在美国，近期的亚洲和拉丁美洲移民、酗酒者、无家可归者以及前战俘中也存在营养不良的情况。所有这些群体都容易受到长期的病理损害，这取决于他们所经历的营养不良程度。周围神经系统很容易因维生素B缺乏而受损。
