David Williams wrote:
>We occasionally have a request for niacin assays on possible pellagra
>sufferers. These is one patient on the wards with dark skin pigmentation,
>and dementia (but not diarrhoea) and this is ebing considered as a possible
>diagnosis, along with Addisons disease, which is a bit easier to diagnose!
It is probably more easy and cheaper to give the patient niacin and see if it
has an effect on the symtoms than to do do an analysis. If the patient recover
by niacin supplementation it is probably the cause of the symtoms!
Best wishes
Mr Sten Öhman, PhD
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