[What to do before a hypervitaminia B12 in the elderly]

Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar; Xavier Sui Seng; Elise Duhamel; Nadir Kadri; Jean Doucet; Emmanuel Andres

doi:10.1016/j.sger.2017.02.010

[What to do before a hypervitaminia B12 in the elderly]

Soins Gerontol. 2017 Mar-Apr;22(124):41-43. doi: 10.1016/j.sger.2017.02.010.

[Article in French]

Authors

Abrar-Ahmad Zulfiqar¹, Xavier Sui Seng², Elise Duhamel², Nadir Kadri², Jean Doucet², Emmanuel Andres³

Affiliations

¹ Département de médecine interne-gériatrie-thérapeutique, CHU Rouen, Hôpital Saint-Julien, 76000 Rouen, France. Electronic address: abrar-ahmad.zulfiqar@chu-rouen.fr.
² Département de médecine interne-gériatrie-thérapeutique, CHU Rouen, Hôpital Saint-Julien, 76000 Rouen, France.
³ Département de médecine interne, CHRU Strasbourg, 67000 Strasbourg, France.

PMID: 28413015
DOI: 10.1016/j.sger.2017.02.010

Abstract

Hypervitanimia B12 is an early marker of serious pathologies. These include solid neoplasms, malignant blood diseases and acute/chronic hepatopathies. Hypervitaminemia B12 in geriatrics is thereby an indicator in the diagnosis and prognosis of these conditions.

Keywords: elderly; hypervitaminia B12; hypervitaminémie B12; malignant diseases; mortality; mortalité; pathologies malignes; sujet âgé.

MeSH terms

Aged
Humans
Liver Diseases / complications
Neoplasms / complications
Nutrition Disorders / blood*
Nutrition Disorders / etiology*
Vitamin B 12 / blood*

Substances

Vitamin B 12