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Rickets in the Tropics: not always nutritional [PDF]

BMJ Case Reports, 2013
### 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, Gunvant Singh, Eske, Mamta, Dhaneria, Ashish, Pathak   +3 more
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Nutritional rickets in Taiwanese children: Experiences at a single center

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2018
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, Yi-Ching Tung, Shih-Yao Liu, Cheng-Ting Lee, Huey-Ling Chen, Wen-Yu Tsai   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental differences in cortical bone structure in chimpanzee and human femora reflect early locomotor independence in humans

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The cortical bone structure of long bone diaphyses changes throughout growth via skeletal modeling and has important implications for bone strength and structural integrity. Ontogenetic trends in diaphyseal structure have been identified in both chimpanzees and humans but it is not yet clear how these trends compare given notable differences ...
Karen R. Swan, Rachel Ives, Zewdi J. Tsegai, Louise T. Humphrey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diagnostic approach to rickets: an Endocrine Society of Bengal (ESB) consensus statement [PDF]

Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism
Rickets, one of the leading causes of bony deformities and short stature, can be calciopenic (inciting event is defective intestinal calcium absorption) or phosphopenic (inciting event is phosphaturia). Early diagnosis and timely treatment of rickets are
Ajitesh Roy, Amarta Shankar Chowdhury, Arindam Ray, Arjun Baidya, Bibek Roychowdhury, Dasarathi Sarkar, Debmalya Sanyal, Indira Maisnam, Kaushik Biswas, Kaushik Pandit, Mainak Banerjee, Moutusi Raychaudhuri, Nilanjan Sengupta, Partha Pratim Chakraborty, Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Pradip Raychaudhuri, Pranab Kumar Sahana, Rajan Palui, Rana Bhattacharjee, Sarmistha Mukhopadhyay, Satinath Mukhopadhyay, Sayantan Ray, Soumik Goswami, Subhankar Chowdhury, Subhodip Pramanik, Subir Chandra Swar, Sujoy Ghosh, Sunetra Mondal, Tapas Chandra Das   +28 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical birth records from 1896 to 1944 from the Basel maternity hospital, Switzerland, reveal significant obstetric selection pressures

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert, Guillermo Bravo Morante, Viktoria A. Krenn, Cédric Cordey, Nicole Torres‐Tamayo, Kaspar Staub, Nicole M. Webb, Martin Haeusler   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARISON OF THE PARENTERAL AND ORAL VITAMIN D SUPPLEMENTATION IN THE TREATMENT OF NUTRITIONAL RICKETS IN TERMS OF MEAN CHANGE IN SERUM CALCIUM, PHOSPHORUS, AND ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE

Journal of University Medical & Dental College, 2021
:  BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE: Rickets is a common presentation on the pediatric floor, with nutritional rickets being the cause of leading significant morbidity, disability, especially in the developing countries of the world. The objective is to compare
Nisar Khan Sajid, Sumaira Tehseen, Tahir Mehmood, Tanveer Ahmed , Ramsha Abbas, Saeed Ahmed   +5 more
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Pengamatan Jangka Panjang dan Intervensi Anak dengan Rakhitis dan Hipovitaminosis D

Majalah Kedokteran Andalas
Rickets is associated with impaired calcium and phosphate homeostasis, which can lead to short stature and joint deformities. Nutritional rickets results from deficiencies of vitamin D, calcium and phosphate. Vitamin D regulates calcium and phosphorus in
Toni Kurniawan, Eka Agustia Rini, Asrawati Asrawati   +2 more
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Warfare, Labor, and Urban Stress: Divergent Health Trajectories in Mongol‐Period Karakorum

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines major palaeopathological trends in Mongol‐period Karakorum and incorporates them into the existing body of research in order to deepen our understanding of health and survival, the impacts of conflict and violence on past populations, and the lived experiences of the city's diverse inhabitants within the broader socio ...
Júlia Olive‐Busom, Susanne Reichert, Dunburee Batsukh, Jan Bemmann, Alice Toso   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An update on biochemical findings for stages of nutritional rickets

Endokrynologia Polska
Rickets is a disease of the growing skeleton resulting from impaired hypertrophic chondrocyte apoptosis and growth plate mineralization. According to the present data on children with nutritional rickets, there are three stages of biochemical findings ...
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Housewife's Greatest Standby’: Dried Eggs, Gender and Domesticity During the Second World War

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the previously underexplored connections between dried eggs, women and domesticity in Britain during the Second World War. It argues that newsprint and advertisements framed the purchase and use of dried eggs, a novel wartime product, as a means for housewives to contribute to the war effort through domestic labour. Dried
Joel Mead
wiley   +1 more source