Clinical features of food-cobalaminmalabsorption syndrome
Mean age
years
76±8
Sex ratio (women/men) 2
Symptomatic patients  
Clinically 70%
Biologically 76%
Main clinical manifestations  
Sensitive polyneuropathy 45%
Cognitive disorders 23%
Asthenia 21%
Main biological manifestations  
Macrocytosis 53%
Anaemia 21%
Leucopenia 11%
Thrombocytopenia 9%
Pancytopenia 6.50%
Table 2: Profile of 92 patients with cobalamin deficiency secondary to food-cobalamin malabsorption syndrome [4,12].