TORONTO — Canadian doctors are being told to consider scurvy when assessing patients at risk of poor nutrition and food insecurity.
A case study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal warns the syndrome most associated with 18th-century seafaring persists in modern times.
With little social and family help she largely subsisted on canned soup, tuna fish, white bread and processed cheese. "It is a diagnosis that people associate with sailors in the 18th century, and not something that is relevant in 2024 in Canada and Toronto," she said. The study says reports from the United Kingdom suggest the prevalence of vitamin C deficiency may be as high as 25 per cent in some low-income groups.
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