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Long-term epidemiological insights into rickets: a nationwide population-based retrospective study [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental PediatricsBackground Rickets is a growth disorder that imposes a global health burden and causes disability in affected children. However, issues related to the clinical epidemiology and mortality risk of nutritional versus hereditary rickets have not been fully ...
Chun-Hao Chu +10 more
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Cost-Effectiveness of Vitamin D Supplementation in Pregnant Woman and Young Children in Preventing Rickets: A Modeling Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 Background: Literature on the cost of management of rickets and cost-effectiveness of vitamin D supplementation in preventing rickets is lacking.Methods: This study considered the cost-effectiveness of providing free vitamin D supplementation to pregnant
Vilius Floreskul +10 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 +7 more
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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 ...
Osman Yeşilbaş +4 more
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Management of rickets: the new horizons for the pediatrician [PDF]
Journal of Health, Population and NutritionRickets is a major public health concern globally. It results from impaired mineralization of the growing bone at its growth plate associated with abnormal calcium and phosphate metabolism.
Rummana Tazia Tonny +4 more
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Nutritional rickets and its associated factors among under-five children in Assela referral and teaching hospital, Ethiopia: a hospital based cross-sectional study design [PDF]
BMC PediatricsBackground Nutritional rickets is a preventable skeletal disorder caused by deficiencies in vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate, leading to softening and weakening of bones.
Helen Abebe +8 more
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Endokrynologia Polska, 2021 Hypophosphataemic rickets (HR) is a genetic disorder causing defects in the renal handling of phosphorus, resulting in rickets. HR can be classified into two groups.
Nahid Tavana +3 more
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A practical approach to diagnose and treat rickets [PDF]
Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy, 2021 Rickets is a disease of growing bone, before fusion of epiphyses. There is defective mineralization of cartilage matrix in the zone of provisional calcification caused either by nutritional vitamin D deficiency and/or low calcium intake or by non ...
Aditi Jaiman +3 more
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Clinical characteristics of vitamin D deficiency rickets in infants and preschool children [PDF]
Korean Journal of Pediatrics, 2010 Purpose : Vitamin D deficiency rickets is a significant public health problem that results from insufficient exposure to sunlight and inadequate vitamin D supplementation. The purpose of this study is to identify the clinical characteristics of vitamin D
Kyoung Huh +5 more
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