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Global Consensus Recommendations on Prevention and Management of Nutritional Rickets
Craig F Munns +2 more
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Diagnosis of Rickets from Pneumonia
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 ...
Osman Yeşilbaş +4 more
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Rickets-vitamin D deficiency and dependency
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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To the Editor: —Dr. A. F. Hess, in his Cutter Lecture at Harvard a few weeks ago, remarked that "advance in our knowledge of rachitis promises to be greater during this decade than through the preceding 250 years." He asserts that the dietary deficiencies play a very significant part in the etiology of rachitis.
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Rickets in Children: An Update
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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Types and Clinical Profile of Rickets in a Tertiary Care Hospital
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.
Shohela Akhter +4 more
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Background: Nutritional Rickets is a condition produced by an absence of Vitamin D, calcium or phosphate. It clues to relaxing and fading of the bones. Dental expression of children with rickets contains enamel hypoplasia and delayed tooth eruption. This
Sara A. Jameel, Nadia A Al rawi
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Genetic aspects of nutritional rickets. [PDF]
Amino acid excretion was investigated in 21 rachitic infants and in 22 of their parents. There was (a) increased alpha-amino acid excretion in one-third of the infants a long time after the rickets had healed, (b) an abnormally high excretion of alpha-amino nitrogen and of phosphorus in many of the parents (c) an abnormal pattern of amino acid ...
Doxiadis, S. +4 more
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Rickets in the Tropics: not always nutritional [PDF]
### Vitamin D-dependent rickets type I A 6-year-old girl belonging to the lower socioeconomic class of a Muslim community, product of consanguineous marriage presented in the paediatric outpatient department with a history of progressive bowing of limbs, recurrent chest infections requiring hospitalisations in the past and failure to thrive.
Poonam, Singh +3 more
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Nutritional rickets in Taiwanese children: Experiences at a single center
Background/purpose: The number of children with nutritional rickets in Taiwan has increased over the last decade. The aim of this study was to present our experiences in the management of patients with this condition.
Li-Hsin Chuang +5 more
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