31.   A simple vitamin deficiency could trigger many of the heart attacks and strokes men suffer each year, a researcher reported Monday.

32.   Crazy, he was suffering a vitamin deficiency.

33.   Health officials said the illness may have been caused by vitamin deficiency but they were still trying to find out the cause.

34.   The vitamin-iron tablets were distributed free of charge in schools in large parts of Assam as part of a government drive to tackle vitamin deficiency in children.

35.   Vitamin deficiencies are the leading cause of mental retardation in Africa.

36.   Cases of diarrhoea, pneumonia and other respiratory problems and rheumatism were on the increase, as were difficulties with vision and other conditions caused by vitamin deficiencies.

37.   While efforts are underway to treat the vitamin deficiencies and diseases responsible for causing most cases of childhood blindness, little has being done to help those already afflicted.