Over one billion humans have insufficient circulating levels of vitamin D, and dietary
insufficiency of calcium is common in developing countries. Worldwide, nutritional rickets is …

Nutritional rickets continues to be a public health problem in many countries despite the
presence of cheap and effective means of preventing the disease. Deficiency of vitamin D is …

Nutritional rickets remains a global public health problem, despite effective and inexpensive
means to prevent and treat the disease. It is most prevalent in the infant/toddler age groups …

Severe deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in infants and children and osteomalacia in all
age groups. Severe vitamin D deficiency may also be associated with hypocalcemia, which …

Vitamin D deficiency is common in the developing countries and exists in both childhood
and adult life. The great importance of Vitamin D is the moderation of calcium (Ca) and …

Worldwide, nutritional rickets continues to be an evolving problem with several causes. This
paper provides an updated literature review characterising the prevalence, aetiology …

It was only in the early part of the 20th century with the discovery of vitamin D and of the role
that ultraviolet light irradiation plays in vitamin D formation that rational and appropriate …

The prevalence of clinical vitamin D deficiency (rickets and osteomalacia) is high in many
parts of the world, and there is a resurgence of rickets among children of ethnic minority …

Nutritional rickets remains a common child health problem in Turkey and many other
developing countries. Although vitamin D deficiency is accepted as the basic problem …

Introduction: Rickets is usually attributed to vitamin D deficiency. However, recent studies
have implicated dietary calcium deficiency in its etiology. Information on relative efficacy of …