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The effect of vitamin B12 on physical performance capacity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Tin-May-Than ,
Ma-Win-May ,
Khin-Sann-Aung  and
M. Mya-Tu
Tin-May-Than
Affiliation:
Physiology Research Division, Department of Medical Research and Department of Physiology, Institute of Medicine (I), Rangoon, Burma
Ma-Win-May
Affiliation:
Physiology Research Division, Department of Medical Research and Department of Physiology, Institute of Medicine (I), Rangoon, Burma
Khin-Sann-Aung
Affiliation:
Physiology Research Division, Department of Medical Research and Department of Physiology, Institute of Medicine (I), Rangoon, Burma
M. Mya-Tu
Affiliation:
Physiology Research Division, Department of Medical Research and Department of Physiology, Institute of Medicine (I), Rangoon, Burma
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Abstract

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1. Physical performance capacity was assessed before and after injection of cyanocobalamin and a placebo for thirty-one Burmese male subjects whose age ranged from 18.7 to 20.8 years.

2. The subjects chosen were free from anaemia and were paired on a ‘weight-age’ basis and divided into two groups.

3. One group received an injection of 1 mg cyanocobalamin and the other was given a placebo injection three times weekly for 6 weeks. This was done on a ‘double-blind’ basis.

4. There was no significant difference between the two groups in any of the criteria measured, before and after administration of either 1 mg cyanocobalamin or placebo injection. So also there was no significant increase in any of the measurements in the subjects after receiving cyanocobalamin injections compared with those receiving the placebo.

Type
Papers of direct relevance to Clinical and Human Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , September 1978 , pp. 269 - 273
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1978

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