As a result, many women in every age group are at risk of vitamin deficiencies.

If there were vitamin deficiencies they had yet to make themselves known.

Older people especially are at high risk of vitamin deficiency.

The boy was born with a rare vitamin deficiency, however, and after nine months he died.

Almost all her teeth had fallen out as a result of vitamin deficiency.

My concern now was the lesser but still important threat of vitamin deficiency.

"The way the epidemic is moving, it does not look to us like a vitamin deficiency," he added.

"People could end up with vitamin deficiencies, in addition to diarrhea, which is also a side effect," he said.

Could this be the result of some kind of vitamin deficiency?

The finding was so serious that it could be comparable in its health effects to a vitamin deficiency, medical experts said.