Rickets has emerged as a public-health problem in Bangladesh during the past two
decades, with up to 8% of children clinically affected in some areas. Insufficiency of dietary …

Nutritional rickets remains prevalent in developing regions of the world such as Africa, the
Indian subcontinent, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. Rickets causes considerable …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses rickets and osteomalacia. Osteomalacia and
rickets are a large group of diseases that are not difficult to diagnose; however, it is often …

Aims: To determine the response to oral calcium in Nigerian children with rickets. Methods:
In a teaching hospital in Western Nigeria, 26 children (13 boys, 13 girls, aged 2–5 years) …

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 …

Background Nutritional rickets is believed to result from the interaction of inadequate serum
25-hydroxyvitamin D [25 (OH) D] concentration and dietary calcium intake, but this …

INTRODUCTION—Vitamin D deficiency was originally discovered as the cause of rickets
due to lack of exposure to sunshine or vitamin D-rich food. This disease is still endemic in …

Nutritional rickets continues to be a significant health problem for children worldwide with
recent evidence of increasing incidence in many developed countries. It is due to vitamin D …

Nutritional rickets in Nigerian children usually results from dietary calcium insufficiency.
Typical dietary calcium intakes in African children are about 200mg daily (approximately 20 …

Background Nutritional rickets remains prevalent in many tropical countries despite the fact
that such countries have ample sunlight. Some postulate that a deficiency of dietary calcium …