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Safety and Effectiveness of Stoss Therapy in Children with Vitamin D Deficiency [PDF]

, 2020
Objectives: Paediatric vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D - 25OHD) deficiency can lead to nutritional rickets and extra-skeletal complications. Compliance with daily therapy can be difficult, making high dose, short-term vitamin D (stoss) therapy attractive ...
Tannous, Paul
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Assessment of caries experience, enamel defects and selected salivary biomarkers in children with nutritional rickets

Journal of Baghdad College of Dentistry, 2019
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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Use of chicken eggshell to improve dietary calcium intake in rural sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]

, 2018
Undernutrition resulting from inadequate access to high‐quality, nutritious food is a widespread issue in sub‐Saharan Africa impacting the health and survival of mothers and their children.
Akins, Alao, Alders, Bagnol, Bhutta, Black, Boulkedid, Braun, Brun, Darnton-Hill, Dowling, Feasey, Fusch, Gantois, Guèye, Helgason, Hofmeyr, Humphries, Kulwa, Liu, Mann, Marks, Mayes, Messens, Mierlo, Milbradt, Naves, Omotayo, Rice, Richards, Rovenský, Rowe, Schaafsma, Schaafsma, Sheikh, Thacher, Vaclavik, Wentholt, Whiley, Willey, World Health Organization, Zerfu   +41 more
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Vitamin D: Newer Concepts of Its Metabolism and Function at the Basic and Clinical Level. [PDF]

, 2020
The interest in vitamin D continues unabated with thousands of publications contributing to a vast and growing literature each year. It is widely recognized that the vitamin D receptor (VDR) and the enzymes that metabolize vitamin D are found in many ...
Bikle, Daniel D
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Genetic aspects of nutritional rickets. [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1976
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., Angelis, C., Karatzas, P., Vrettos, C., Lapatsanis, P.   +4 more
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Relationship between polymorphisms in vitamin D metabolism-related genes and the risk of rickets in Han Chinese children [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency rickets is common in China. Genetic factors may play an important role in the susceptibility to rickets. Our study aimed to identify the relationship between three vitamin D-related genes (group specific component [GC ...
Lihong Ren, Shufen Yang, Ye Liu, Yuling Zhang   +3 more
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An Overview of Rickets in Children

Kidney International Reports, 2020
Rickets is a common bone disease worldwide that is associated with disturbances in calcium and phosphate homeostasis and can lead to short stature and joint deformities.
Rahul Chanchlani, Paul Nemer, Rajiv Sinha, Lena Nemer, Vinod Krishnappa, Etienne Sochett, Fayez Safadi, Rupesh Raina   +7 more
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Vitamin D Status and its Association with Morbidity including Wasting and Opportunistic Illnesses in HIV-Infected Women in Tanzania. [PDF]

, 2011
Vitamin D has a potential role in preventing HIV-related complications, based on its extensive involvement in immune and metabolic function, including preventing osteoporosis and premature cardiovascular disease.
Adeyemi OM, Chlebowski RT, Cox D, Diggle P, Donna Spiegelman, Eduardo Villamor, Edward L. Giovannucci, Ellen Hertzmark, Ferdinand M. Mugusi, Finkelstein JL, Gernard I. Msamanga, Guenter P, Hsu JW, James WP, Julia L. Finkelstein, Miettinen O, Saurabh Mehta, Stroder J, Wafaie W. Fawzi, WHO   +19 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
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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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