A Brief History of Nutritional Rickets [PDF]
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019 Since first described almost a century ago, vitamin D preparations have been successfully used as a public health intervention to prevent nutritional rickets.
Benjamin J. Wheeler +12 more
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The roles of vitamin D and dietary calcium in nutritional rickets [PDF]
Bone Reports, 2018 The etiology and pathogenesis of nutritional rickets are becoming progressively clearer. Vitamin D deficiency has generally been considered the major or only player in the pathogenesis of nutritional rickets.
Kebashni Thandrayen, John M Pettifor
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Nutritional rickets presenting with developmental regression: a rare presentation of rickets [PDF]
BMC Pediatrics, 2023 Rickets is a disorder of defective mineralisation of the growth plate. Vitamin D deficiency remains the leading cause of nutritional rickets worldwide. We present the case of a 3.5-year-old breastfed boy who presented with dental abscess when a history ...
Chariklia Pieridou, Suma Uday
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The genetic and epigenetic contributions to the development of nutritional rickets [PDF]
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2022 Nutritional rickets is an important disease in global health. Although nutritional rickets commonly manifests as bony deformities, there is an increased risk of life-threatening seizures secondary to hypocalcaemia.
Innocent Ogunmwonyi +2 more
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Nutritional rickets among children admitted with severe pneumonia at Mulago hospital, Uganda: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
BMC Pediatrics, 2018 Background There’s abundant sunshine in the tropics but severe rickets is still observed. Nutritional rickets is associated with an increased risk of acute lower respiratory infections.
Thereza Piloya +5 more
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NUTRITIONAL RICKETS – REVISITED [PDF]
Медицинский совет, 2016 Nutritional rickets is a bone disease in early childhood resulting in bone pain, delayed motor development, and bending of the bones, caused by vitamin D deficiency and/or inadequate dietary calcium intake. The consequences of nutritional rickets include
P. Pludowski, I. N. Zakharova
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Prevention and treatment of nutritional rickets [PDF]
Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2016 Nutritional rickets continues to be a significant health problem for children worldwide with recent evidence of increasing incidence in many developed countries. It is due to vitamin D deficiency and/or inadequate dietary calcium intake with variation in the relative contributions of each of these dependant on environmental factors such a dietary ...
N J Shaw
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Nutritional Rickets Among Children: A Retrospective Study from Saudi Arabia [PDF]
Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 2023 Hussam Darraj,1 Khalid M Hakami,1 Rawan Maghrabi,1 Nawaf Bakri,1 Mohammed H Alhazmi,1 Abdellh A Names,1 Ahmed Akkur,1 Maram Sayegh,1 Asma Alhazmi,1 Saad M Khubrani,1 Gassem Gohal,1 Amro H Alomar,2 Abdulaziz H Alhazmi1 1Faculty of Medicine, Jazan ...
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Nutritional rickets and its associated factors among under-five children in Assela referral and teaching hospital, Ethiopia: a hospital based cross-sectional study design [PDF]
BMC PediatricsBackground Nutritional rickets is a preventable skeletal disorder caused by deficiencies in vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate, leading to softening and weakening of bones.
Helen Abebe +8 more
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Orthopaedist Beware: Severe Nutritional Rickets and Autism Spectrum Disorder [PDF]
Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North AmericaBackground: The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) continues to rise in the United States, and many affected children have highly selective diets and sensory-driven food aversions that increase the risk of micronutrient deficiencies.
Mohamed Said, MS +5 more
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