Match the following vitamins to the signs or condition associated with their deficiency.
-Riboflavin
A) Beriberi: a group of symptoms including mental confusion, muscular wasting, limb swelling, decreased peripheral sensation, tachycardia, and an enlarged heart.
B) Eye problems including light sensitivity, excessive tearing, burning and itching, and vision loss.
C) Pellagra: characterized by eczema, dementia, diarrhea, and eventually death.
D) Neural tube defects, megaloblastic anemia, skin lesions, and poor growth.
E) Megaloblastic anemia and neurologic dysfunction due to demyelination of neurons.
F) Scurvy: characterized by dark purplish spots on the skin and spongy or bleeding gums.
G) Night blindness, poor growth, and susceptibility to infection.
H) Rickets: bowing of weight-bearing bones.
I) Hemolytic anemia that results in destruction of red blood cells.
J) Hemorrhaging and potentially fatal anemia.
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