Vitamin deficiency causes clinical disease
Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy.  Vitamin C is important for the maintenance of endothelial boundaries, with edema noted in scurvy.  Vitamin C is also required for the synthesis of catecholamines and cortisol, so deficiency causes failure of the sympathetic nervous system.


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