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Nutritional rickets & osteomalacia: A practical approach to management
The Indian journal of medical research, 2020 Defective mineralization of the growth plate and preformed osteoid result in rickets and osteomalacia, respectively. The leading cause of rickets worldwide is solar vitamin D deficiency and/or dietary calcium deficiency collectively termed as nutritional
S. Uday, W. Högler
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Types and Clinical Profile of Rickets in a Tertiary Care Hospital
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Journal, 2009 Background: There are different types of rickets. Rickets presents with various clinical signs and symptoms. Familial X linked hypophosphatamic rickets (XLHR) is reported to be the commonest one.
Shohela Akhter +4 more
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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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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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Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2020 BACKGROUND Nutritional rickets is a disease which affects children, especially in low- and middle-income countries. It causes problems such as skeletal deformities and impaired growth. The most common cause of nutritional rickets is vitamin D deficiency.
M. Chibuzor +3 more
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Validation of a novel scoring system for changes in skeletal manifestations of hypophosphatasia in newborns, infants, and children: The Radiographic Global Impression of Change scale [PDF]
, 2018 Hypophosphatasia (HPP) is the heritable metabolic disease characterized by impaired skeletal mineralization due to low activity of the tissue-nonspecific isoenzyme of alkaline phosphatase.
Fujita, Kenji P +4 more
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Safety and Effectiveness of Stoss Therapy in Children with Vitamin D Deficiency [PDF]
, 2020 Objectives: Paediatric vitamin D (25-hydroxyvitamin D - 25OHD) deficiency can lead to nutritional rickets and extra-skeletal complications. Compliance with daily therapy can be difficult, making high dose, short-term vitamin D (stoss) therapy attractive ...
Tannous, Paul
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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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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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