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Increased Metabolic Rate in X-linked Hypophosphatemic Mice [PDF]
, 1986 Hyp mice are a model for human X-linked hypophosphatemia, the most common form of vitamin D-resistant rickets. It has previously been observed that Hyp mice have a greater food consumption per gram body weight than do normal mice.
Meyer, M. H. +2 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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A Brief History of Nutritional Rickets
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2019 Since first described almost a century ago, vitamin D preparations have been successfully used as a public health intervention to prevent nutritional rickets.
B. Wheeler +5 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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SNX10 gene mutation leading to osteopetrosis with dysfunctional osteoclasts [PDF]
, 2017 Acknowledgements We sincerely thank the patients and family members who participated in this study. We would also like to thank Stefan Esher, Umeå University, for help with genealogy, and Anna Westerlund for excellent technical assistance.
Ameur, Adam +15 more
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Current Osteoporosis Reports, 2017 Purpose of ReviewNutritional rickets and osteomalacia are common in dark-skinned and migrant populations. Their global incidence is rising due to changing population demographics, failing prevention policies and missing implementation strategies.
S. Uday, W. Högler
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Relationship between rickets and incomplete distal renal tubular acidosis in children
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2010 Background In the Sub Saharan Africa Rickets has now been established to be due primarily to calcium deficiency and sometimes in combination with vitamin D deficiency. The main thrust of management is calcium supplementation with or without vitamin D. An
Oduwole Abiola O +2 more
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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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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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