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QualPharma *Dec 2020* , Vol.3 ISSUE 12
MEDICALA Macro Insight to a MicronutrientMETHYLCOBALAMINIndia's life expectancy has more than doubledand infant mortality, halved in thelast fifty years. The extent of progress oneconomic fronts has also been enormous.India is knocking the door for a permanentposition in the United Nations and is oneof the few atomic power countries in theworld. However, paradoxically, we havethe highest number of malnourished peoplein India. With one sixth of the globalpopulation residing in India, one third ofabout two billion people suffering fromvitamin and micronutrient deficit are inIndia.Vitamin B12 Deficiency: A forgottenIllnessCurrently, vitamin B-12 deficiency hasbecome an almost forgotten illness or istreated as a less serious diagnosis. Weneed to expand our horizons in our understandingof vitamin B12, but one thing iscertain that vitamin B12 deficiency is extremelycommon in the Indian subcontinent.The insight into vitamin B12 metabolismcame from the western literature, andsince then India has adopted their guidelineson diagnosis and management. But,we can’t be farther away than this from thetruth. We need to understand more aboutvitamin B12 with respect to Indian contextespecially now that there is evidencethat vitamin B12 deficiency is morecommon than was previously believed.Why Vitamin B12 Deficiency in India?While vitamin B12 deficiency in the Westis seen more commonly in the elderly andis due to malabsorption, in India it affectsall age groups due to following factors:Diet: As compared to a western diet, thereis much lesser vitamin B12 in the averageIndian diet, which is mostly vegetarian.Even the non-vegetarians do not consumemeat regularly as the westerners do. Theusual habit is that they take meat onlyonce a week at the most. Most nonvegetariansare non-vegetarians only becausethey might occasionally consumesome fish or egg. Thus, there is a lack ofregular consumption of meat and if at allSushmita Chatterjee KuswaMrs. Sushmita Chatterjee Kuswa is currentlyworking as a Senior Manager in oneof India’s leading pharmaceutical company.She has an expertise of 14 years inScientific as well as Regulatory Affairs.She has excelled in MSc Biophysics withDistinction from Mumbai University aswell is Distinction holder in Business ManagementStudies which she has completedfrom Welingkar Institute of Management,Mumbai. She has graduated with doublemajor subjects in Microbiology and Biochemistryfrom the prestigious St. Xavier’sCollege, Mumbai.Along with excelling in academic and extra-curricular activities during her educationyears, she has always been an ardentreader and also has a flair for writing.QualPharma *Dec 2020* , Vol.3 ISSUE 12
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