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Rickets: An Overview and Future Directions, with Special Reference to Bangladesh: A Summary of the Rickets Convergence Group Meeting, Dhaka, 26-27 January 2006 [PDF]

, 2008
Rickets has emerged as a public-health problem in Bangladesh during the past two decades, with up to 8% of children clinically affected in some areas.
Pettifor, John M., Fischer, Philip R., Meisner, Craig, Thacher, Tom D., Arnaud, Josiane, Rickets Convergence Group, Craviari, Thierry   +6 more
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Incidence and characteristics of vitamin D deficiency rickets in New Zealand children: a New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To investigate the incidence and characteristics of vitamin D deficiency rickets in New Zealand (NZ). Methods: Prospective surveillance among paediatricians of Vitamin D Deficiency Rickets was conducted by the New Zealand Paediatric ...
Benjamin J. Wheeler, Nigel P. Dickson, Lisa A. Houghton, Leanne M. Ward, Barry J. Taylor   +4 more
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Management of rickets: the new horizons for the pediatrician

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
Rickets 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, Ranjit Ranjan Roy, Tahmina Jesmin, Abdullah Al Mamun, Nadira Sultana   +4 more
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Familial hypophosphatemic rickets

, 2010
Rickets is the failure of mineralization of osteoid and newly formed bones in a child skeleton. It is commonly associated with vitamin D deficiency; however, it can be because of a decrease in the serum phosphate levels leading to inadequate ...
Shrivastava R, Sattur A, Naikmasur V, Babshet M   +3 more
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Rickets in the 21st century

, 2005
Rickets may have been thought to be a \u27thing of the past\u27. In fact at the beginning of the 20th century, it has been estimated that 85% of children living in northern hemisphere urban industrialised cities had rickets.
Christine Rodda
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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

BMC Pediatrics
Background 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, Berhe Gebremichael, Assefa Desalew, Melat B. Maruta, Addis Eyeberu, Jemal Ahmed Nure, Adera Debella, Lemma Demissie Regassa, Ibsa Mussa   +8 more
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Vitamin D-Dependent Rickets: Eight Cases

, 2016
Objective: Vitamin D is essential for bone development and health, and deficiency resulting in rickets and skeletal deformities is seen mainly during rapid growth.
Yuca, Sevil Ari, Bektas, Selcuk, Dulger, Haluk, Yilmaz, Cahide, Cesur, Yasar, Temel, Hayrettin   +5 more
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Vitamin D receptor polymorphism in nutritional rickets

, 2006
Although the pathophysiology of rickets and especially the central role of Vitamin D in this disease has been clarified since the 1920s, it is not completely understood why rickets is still prevalant in sunny countries. Furthermore, as we understand more

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A retrospective evaluation of patients with rickets

, 2011
Introduction: Rickets is a group of diseases presenting with skeletal deformities and decreased growth rate due to diminished epiphyseal calcification. It has been previously reported that in our country, nutritional rickets with Vitamin D insufficiency ...
Eren, Erdal, İstanbullu, Kenan, Sağlam, Halil, Ocak, Muzaffer   +3 more
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Rickets in premature children: non-classic form of rickets

, 2021
Rickets (osteopenia) in premature children is covered in the article.
V. M. Studenikin
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