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JPGN Reports, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives This study aimed to assess the nutritional status of children aged 1 month to 14 years during admission and discharge at Tikur Anbesa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Methods A prospective descriptive study design was employed, utilizing structured and nonstructured questionnaires to collect data. A total of 400 children,
Abebe Habtamu, Tenagne Million
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Resurrection of vitamin D deficiency and rickets.
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2006 The epidemic scourge of rickets in the 19th century was caused by vitamin D deficiency due to inadequate sun exposure and resulted in growth retardation, muscle weakness, skeletal deformities, hypocalcemia, tetany, and seizures.
M. Holick
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Celiac disease presenting as rickets in Saudi children
Annals of Saudi Medicine, 2013 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Rickets is commonly seen as a sign of malabsorption like celiac disease if it is not treated appropriately with vitamin D and calcium supplements.
Asaad Assiri +4 more
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DO IT Trial: vitamin D Outcomes and Interventions in Toddlers - a TARGet Kids! randomized controlled trial. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundVitamin D levels are alarmingly low (<75 nmol/L) in 65-70% of North American children older than 1 year. An increased risk of viral upper respiratory tract infections (URTI), asthma-related hospitalizations and use of anti-inflammatory ...
Birken, Catherine S +10 more
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Assessment of Vitamin D Status in Great Apes in Human Care
Zoo Biology, EarlyView.Wild great apes, like these chimpanzees in Uganda, do seek direct sunshine even in their natural habitats. ABSTRACT Reliably assessing vitamin D status in nonhuman great apes presents unique challenges, including the optimal collection, handling and storage of appropriate samples, assay selection, and interpretation of results.
Matyas Liptovszky +6 more
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, 2016 Background: Vitamin D and calcium deficiencies are common worldwide, causing nutritional rickets and osteomalacia, which have a major impact on health, growth, and development of infants, children, and adolescents; the consequences can be lethal or can ...
C. Munns +32 more
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Australian Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.Nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism is a metabolic disorder caused by an imbalance in calcium homeostasis and is typically associated with the feeding of a calcium‐deficient diet. Nutritional secondary hyperparathyroidism has been reported in domestic species, including cats and dogs, as well as captive carnivores and wildlife including lions ...
JL Austen +5 more
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CYP3A4 mutation causes vitamin D–dependent rickets type 3
Journal of Clinical Investigation, 2018 Genetic forms of vitamin D–dependent rickets (VDDRs) are due to mutations impairing activation of vitamin D or decreasing vitamin D receptor responsiveness.
Jeffrey D. Roizen +11 more
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Convulsions as primary manifestation of nutritional rickets [PDF]
Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences, 2013 Introduction: Rickets is diagnosed based on classical clinical features like craniotabes, rachitic rosary, widening of wrist joints, pot belly, hypotonia, bowed legs and supported by the laboratory evidence of hypocalcemia, hypophosphatemia, and raised ...
B.P. Karunakara +3 more
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X-linked vitamin D-resistant rickets: 12 years of follow-up
The Pan African Medical Journal, 2018 Rickets are abnormalities of mineralization that can lead to bone fractures and deformities. Vitamin-resistant rickets is defined as any rickets not prevented by regular, early and prolonged administration of vitamin D and not cured by a sufficient total
Ahmed Anas Guerboub +4 more
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