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Rickets in Children: An Update
Biomedicines, 2021 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 ...
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Rickets-vitamin D deficiency and dependency
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2012 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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Frontiers in EndocrinologyRickets results from impaired mineralization of growing bone due to alterations in calcium and phosphate homeostasis. Clinical signs of rickets are related to the age of the patient, the duration of the disease, and the underlying disorder.
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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 ...
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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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BMC Pediatrics, 2018 Background There’s abundant sunshine in the tropics but severe rickets is still observed. Nutritional rickets is associated with an increased risk of acute lower respiratory infections.
Thereza Piloya +5 more
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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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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
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Diagnostic approach to rickets: an Endocrine Society of Bengal (ESB) consensus statement [PDF]
Annals of Pediatric Endocrinology & MetabolismRickets, 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
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