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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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Ideology and disease identity : the politics of rickets, 1929-1982 [PDF]
, 2013 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 ...
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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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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 +3 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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The roles of vitamin D and dietary calcium in nutritional rickets
Bone Reports, 2018 The etiology and pathogenesis of nutritional rickets are becoming progressively clearer. Vitamin D deficiency has generally been considered the major or only player in the pathogenesis of nutritional rickets.
Kebashni Thandrayen, John M. Pettifor
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Unusual presentation of vitamin D-dependent rickets type II in a kitten
Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery Open Reports, 2020 Case summary A 15-week-old kitten presented with a 1-month history of intermittent generalised tremors and abdominal distension. Hypocalcaemia associated with increased 1,25-vitamin D 3 was consistent with vitamin D 3 -dependent rickets type II. The bone
Florent Duplan, Christina Maunder
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Nephrolithiasis, kidney failure and bone disorders in Dent disease patients with and without CLCN5 mutations [PDF]
, 2015 open9noDent disease (DD) is a rare X-linked recessive renal tubulopathy characterised by low-molecular-weight proteinuria (LMWP), hypercalciuria, nephrocalcinosis and/or nephrolithiasis. DD is caused by mutations in both the CLCN5 and OCRL genes.
Angela D’Angelo +9 more
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Wellcome Open Research, 2017 Background: Nutritional rickets is a public health concern in developing countries despite tropical climates and a re-emerging issue in developed countries.
Stella W. Karuri +4 more
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Alkaline phosphatase in clinical practice in childhood: Focus on rickets
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and its isoenzymes reflect bone metabolism: ALP increases the ratio of inorganic phosphate to pyrophosphate systemically and facilitates mineralization as well as reduces extracellular pyrophosphate concentration, an ...
Giuseppe Cannalire +6 more
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