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 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 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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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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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 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 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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J Clin Res Pediatr Endocrinol, 2010 Nutritional rickets (NR) is still the most common form of growing bone disease despite the efforts of health care providers to reduce the incidence of the disease. Today, it is well known that the etiology of NR ranges from isolated vitamin D deficiency (VDD) to isolated calcium deficiency. In Turkey, almost all NR cases result from VDD.
Ozkan B.
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NUTRITIONAL RICKETS – REVISITED
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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Long-term epidemiological insights into rickets: a nationwide population-based retrospective study [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental PediatricsBackground Rickets is a growth disorder that imposes a global health burden and causes disability in affected children. However, issues related to the clinical epidemiology and mortality risk of nutritional versus hereditary rickets have not been fully ...
Chun-Hao Chu +10 more
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