Health reflects the lifestyle one leads and the sounder the health, the better lifestyle. However, with rapid urbanization and fast-tracked industrialization, physiological anomalies have become a recurring occurrence. Abetalipoproteinemia is an offshoot of such tendency where the disorder interferes in the regular absorption process of fat and fat-soluble vitamins from food. It is a result of a mutation in microsomal triglyceride transfer protein which affects the gastrointestinal system, eyes, nervous system, and blood circulation
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