Results 11 to 20 of about 7,479 (162)
Long-term epidemiological insights into rickets: a nationwide population-based retrospective study [PDF]
Background 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
doaj +2 more sources
NUTRITIONAL RICKETS – REVISITED
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
doaj +3 more sources
Early Adolescent Nutritional Rickets
Purpose. To evaluate early adolescents with nutritional rickets and their responses to treatment. Methods. 203 adolescents (aged 10 to 13 years) presenting with clinical features of lower-limb deformity, carpopedal spasm, joint swelling, a significant ...
Anil Agarwal, Divesh Gulati
doaj +3 more sources
Efficacy and safety of 90,000 IU versus 300,000 IU single dose oral Vitamin D in nutritional rickets: A randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Aim: To compare efficacy and safety of 90,000 IU versus 300,000 IU oral single dose vitamin D for treatment of nutritional rickets. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial. Setting: Tertiary care hospital.
Medha Mittal +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Spiral Fracture in Young Infant Causing a Diagnostic Dilemma: Nutritional Rickets versus Child Abuse [PDF]
Fractures are uncommon in young, nonambulatory infants. The differential diagnosis includes nonaccidental injury (NAI) and metabolic bone disease, including rickets.
Sonia Kaushal +3 more
doaj +2 more sources
Epidemiology of nutritional rickets in children
In most developing countries, nutritional rickets is a major health problem. The aim of this study was to explore the magnitude of nutritional rickets among Saudi infants, and the various clinical presentations, as well as to address the possible ...
Al-Atawi M +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
A practical approach to diagnose and treat rickets [PDF]
Rickets is a disease of growing bone, before fusion of epiphyses. There is defective mineralization of cartilage matrix in the zone of provisional calcification caused either by nutritional vitamin D deficiency and/or low calcium intake or by non ...
Aditi Jaiman +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Clinical periodontal diagnosis
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi +5 more
wiley +1 more source
Nutritional rickets at puberty [PDF]
Four adolescent Asians with vitamin D deficiency rickets were seen in Derby in the 5 years 1967 to 1971. They had an extremely low intake of vitamin D, and this, combined with the extra metabolic demands of puberty, was judged to be the main cause of the rickets.
M W, Moncrieff, H R, Lunt, L J, Arthur
openaire +2 more sources
Clinical and Biochemical Profile of Nutritional Rickets in Infants: A Study from Peshawar
Objective: To determine the factors associated with nutritional rickets among infants in Peshawar and its surrounding. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan among mothers and their ...
Tanveer Hussain, Tahir Saeed Siddiqui
doaj +5 more sources

