Larger doses of vitamin D and calcium may be needed for people with intestinal malabsorption.

Diseases or conditions that involve intestinal malabsorption promote zinc losses.

Chronic pancreatitis often results in intestinal malabsorption, and can result in diabetes.

Intestinal malabsorption caused by aminosalicylic acid therapy.

Intestinal malabsorption can be due to:

Significant intestinal malabsorption of various substrates, including bile acids, is a consistent finding in CF patients.

Intestinal malabsorption induced by paraminosalicylic acid (abstract).

Intestinal malabsorption induced by oral colchicine.

Giardia lamblia produces a wide spectrum of infection in man ranging from asymptomatic carriage through acute to persistent diarrhoea with intestinal malabsorption.

However, despite the role that intestinal malabsorption of glycine and imino acids can play in iminoglycinuria, the primary defect disrupts their renal transport and reabsorption.

It is strongly associated with glucagonoma, a glucagon-producing tumor of the pancreas, but is also seen in a number of other conditions including liver disease and intestinal malabsorption.

Consumption of gluten leads to abnormal changes of the mucous membrane (mucosa) of the small intestine, impairing its ability to properly absorb fats and additional nutrients during digestion (intestinal malabsorption).

In healthy humans only traces of HDCA have been found in urine, but in patients with cholestatic liver disease or intestinal malabsorption a significant amount has been found excreted.

Complications include retinitis pigmentosa, degenerative changes in the central nervous system involving the cerebellum and long tracts, fatty diarrhea, ataxia, areflexia, demyelination, defective intestinal lipid absorption with low serum cholesterol level, intestinal malabsorption, amaurosis, retarded growth, and steatorrhea.