[Vitamin status in human noninfectious chronic diseases]

The data on vitamin sufficiency of adults and children suffering from chronic sickness and vitamin content in mostly common hospital diets has been submitted. Polyhypovitaminosis (combined insufficiency with several vitamins) takes place irrespective of season, age and place of residence. Deficit of B group vitamins and carotenoids has been observed more frequently. All hospital diets contain inadequate level of carotenoids, strongly reduced diets are deficiently in all vitamins. Any way of vitaminization (vitamins administration, including of vitamin-enriched food products in the ration) leads to the decrease of polyhypovitaminosis frequency, to the increase of the part of people adequately supplied with all vitamins and simultaneous improvement of patients clinic status.