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"Test me and treat me" - attitudes to vitamin D deficiency and supplementation: a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 BMJ Open, "Test me and treat me"-attitudes to vitamin D deficiency and supplementation: a qualitative study.
Famakin, O +8 more
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Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.This study provided valuable information about breastfeeding and complementary feeding in a nationwide study of infants born in 2009–2015. The novel infant diet score was associated with various maternal, demographic, and birth characteristics, as well as overweight/obesity at 12 and 18 months of age.
Jenny Jonsdottir +3 more
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Medicine, 2001 Abstract Rickets is the clinical consequence of impaired mineralization of bone matrix throughout the growing skeleton in children, whilst osteomalacia is the result of this disturbance after the growth plates have fused in adults. The three major causes of rickets and osteomalacia are vitamin D deficiency, renal tubular dysfunction, and abnormalities
Whyte, M, Thakker, R
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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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Photochemistry and Photobiology, EarlyView.We demonstrate the potential utility of the shadow rule and how it may be understood in relation to the UV Index. The shadow rule indirectly determines the sun's altitude by observing the length of a person's shadow during the course of the day. When the shadow cast by the sun on a horizontal surface is shorter than the height of the person casting the
Caradee Y. Wright +4 more
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Comparative analysis of vitamin D content in sardines canned in olive oil and water [PDF]
, 2016 Vitamin D is a fat-soluble hormone primarily responsible in maintaining plasma calcium and phosphorus homeostasis in humans. Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency is a global health issue.
Kalajian, Tyler Arek
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Prevalence of rickets-like bone deformities in rural Gambian children. [PDF]
, 2015 The aim of this study was to estimate the burden of childhood rickets-like bone deformity in a rural region of West Africa where rickets has been reported in association with a low calcium intake. A population-based survey of children aged 0.5-17.9 years
Fulford, Anthony J +6 more
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Periodontology 2000, EarlyView.AbstractPeriodontitis is a complex inflammatory disease in which the host genome, in conjunction with extrinsic factors, determines susceptibility and progression. Genetic predisposition is the strongest risk factor in the first decades of life. As people age, chronic exposure to the periodontal microbiome puts a strain on the proper maintenance of ...
Arne S. Schaefer +4 more
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Vitamin-D-deficiency rickets even with abundant sunlight - a case to highlight emerging problem [PDF]
, 2016 We describe a case of vitamin-D-deficiency rickets in a young child to highlight its existence in Malaysia where sunlight is abundant throughout the year. The child presented with deformity of both legs. He came from an educated urban family but remained
Devnani, Anand Sobhraj, Ting, Tzer Hwu
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