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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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An Overview of Rickets in Children
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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A practical approach to diagnose and treat rickets [PDF]
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 periodontal diagnosis
Abstract Periodontal diseases include pathological conditions elicited by the presence of bacterial biofilms leading to a host response. In the diagnostic process, clinical signs such as bleeding on probing, development of periodontal pockets and gingival recessions, furcation involvement and presence of radiographic bone loss should be assessed prior ...
Giovanni E. Salvi +5 more
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Ideology and disease identity : the politics of rickets, 1929-1982 [PDF]
How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous ...
Bivins, Roberta E.
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Clinical characteristics of vitamin D deficiency rickets in infants and preschool children [PDF]
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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Treatable Cause of Dilated Cardiomyopathy, Rickets; Two Years’ Experience
Objective:Dilated cardiomyopathy (DC) results from dilatation of one or both ventricles and is caused by systolic dysfunction. Rickets are a rare cause of DC.
Ülkem Koçoğlu Barlas +7 more
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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]
Background 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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Rickets, historically referred to as "the English disease", is common worldwide. Absence of phosphate at the growth plate and mineralising bone surfaces due to inadequate vitamin D supply either from sunlight exposure or diet is the main cause. Inherited disorders causing hypophosphataemia have shown the intricacies of phosphate metabolism.
Elder, C.J., Bishop, N.J.
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