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Ideology and disease identity : the politics of rickets, 1929-1982 [PDF]
, 2013 How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous ...
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Nutritional rickets at puberty [PDF]
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1973 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
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Diagnosis of Rickets from Pneumonia
Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine, 2018 Rickets is a group of diseases presenting with decreased growth rate and skeletal deformities due to diminished endochondral calcification. Despite vitamin D supplementation programs, nutritional rickets is an important public health problem in ...
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Validation of a novel scoring system for changes in skeletal manifestations of hypophosphatasia in newborns, infants, and children: The Radiographic Global Impression of Change scale [PDF]
, 2018 Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is the heritable metabolic disease characterized by impaired skeletal mineralization due to low activity of the tissue-nonspecific isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase.
Fujita, Kenji P +4 more
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Rickets-vitamin D deficiency and dependency
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2012 Rickets is an important problem even in countries with adequate sun exposure. The causes of rickets/osteomalacia are varied and include nutritional deficiency, especially poor dietary intake of vitamin D and calcium.
Manisha Sahay, Rakesh Sahay
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Assessing the preservation of cytosine methylation in ancient DNA from five prehistoric Native American populations [PDF]
, 2015 textCytosine methylation of CpG dinucleotides is an important epigenetic mark that regulates gene expression in humans. While methylation patterns in extant populations have been widely studied, few studies have attempted to analyze methylation in ...
Smith, Ricky Wayne Aldon
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Rickets in Children: An Update
Biomedicines, 2021 Rickets refers to a deficient mineralization of the growth plate cartilage, predominantly affecting longer bones. Despite the fact that preventive measures are available, it is still a common disease worldwide; nutritional rickets, due to vitamin D ...
Cristina Gentile, Francesco Chiarelli
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Burosumab therapy in children with x-linked hypophosphatemia [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND X-linked hypophosphatemia is characterized by increased secretion of fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23), which leads to hypophosphatemia and consequently rickets, osteomalacia, and skeletal deformities.
Boot, Annemieke M +13 more
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Locating ethnicity and health: exploring concepts and contexts [PDF]
, 2007 With the rapid development of ethnicity and health as a field of sociological research, this paper seeks to re-evaluate the development of ideas around ethnicity, 'race' and culture and consider how they have been applied to the question of health ...
Ahmad, Waqar I. U., Bradby, Hannah
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Types and Clinical Profile of Rickets in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2009 Background: There are different types of rickets. Rickets presents with various clinical signs and symptoms. Familial X linked hypophosphatamic rickets (XLHR) is reported to be the commonest one.
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