Biology

Deficiency Diseases and Disorders

706 Questions

Deficiency diseases and disorders are caused by a lack of essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals in the diet or environment. This includes conditions like anemia, goitre, and night blindness. Practice these questions to prepare for general science exams.

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Deficiency Diseases and Disorders Questions

Multiple choice

Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection can lead to which of the following diseases?

  1. Hashimoto's thyroiditis

  2. Agranulocytosis

  3. Cold hemagglutinin disease

  4. Thrombocytopenic purpura

  5. Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Patients with cold hemagglutinin disease have monoclonal anti-blood group I, leading to an autoimmune hemolytic anemia. It consists of warm-, cold- or mixed-reactive antibody types that are directed against antigens on the red blood cell surface. Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection can cause cold hemagglutinin disease.

Multiple choice

Deficit in weight for height in a 3-year-old child indicates:

  1. acute malnutrition

  2. chronic malnutrition

  3. concomitant acute and chronic malnutrition

  4. underweight
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Weight for height: weight in relation to height is now considered more important than weight above. Low weight for height is also known as nutritional wasting for emaciation (acute malnutrition). It is associated with increased risk of mortality and morbidity.

Multiple choice

Which of the following diseases is a LSD?

  1. Crohn's disease

  2. Gaucher's disease

  3. Addison's disease

  4. Celiac disease
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Gaucher's disease is the most common LSD caused due to the deficiency of the enzyme glucocerebrosidase.