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Nutritional rickets in Norway: a nationwide register-based cohort study. [PDF]
Objectives: Poor vitamin D status has been reported to be highly prevalent in many non-western immigrant groups living in Norway and other western countries.
Meyer HE +4 more
europepmc +2 more sources
Convulsions as primary manifestation of nutritional rickets [PDF]
Introduction: Rickets is diagnosed based on classical clinical features like craniotabes, rachitic rosary, widening of wrist joints, pot belly, hypotonia, bowed legs and supported by the laboratory evidence of hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, and raised ...
B.P. Karunakara +3 more
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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
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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
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Short report: craniosynostosis, a late complication of nutritional rickets [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: Nutritional rickets may be a preventable cause of craniosynostosis. This potential association is under-recognised. A late diagnosis of craniosynostosis may result in reduced brain growth, raised intracranial pressure and long-term ...
Mughal, M.Z. +5 more
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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
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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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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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Ideology and disease identity : the politics of rickets, 1929-1982 [PDF]
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 ...
Bivins, Roberta E.
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Nutritional Rickets and Osteomalacia in the Twenty-first Century: Revised Concepts, Public Health, and Prevention Strategies [PDF]
Suma Uday, Wolfgang Hoegler
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