Objective: Because the causes of nutritional rickets in tropical countries are poorly
understood, we conducted a case-control study to determine factors associated with rickets …

Nutritional rickets in infancy and childhood due to vitamin D deficiency continues to be a
world‐wide problem. Its occurrence is probably higher in many tropical and sub‐tropical …

Infantile nutritional rickets is re-emerging as a worldwide health problem despite having
been nearly eradicated in many countries, including the United States, in the 1930s and …

The incidence of nutritional rickets appears to be increasing in North American infants and
toddlers; it is widely assumed that this is due to vitamin D deficiency. Thus, records of 43 …

Background: Nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets occurs when children do not receive
adequate vitamin D, which can be obtained from diet or manufactured in the skin when there …

DOI: 10.1503/cmaj. 050177 plenty of sunshine, vitamin D deficiency remains an issue. 12
Recent reports through the Canadian Paediatric Surveillance Program have highlighted the …

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 …

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency continues to be a problem in pediatrics. This report presents
four children, one Caucasian male and three African-American females aged 4 to 24 months …

EDITORIALS THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS AUGUST 2000 many of whom were reported
to be receiving “long-term breast feeding.” 13 Case reports and case series of infants with …

Objectives A high prevalence of rickets of unknown aetiology has been reported in
Chakaria, Bangladesh. Classically, rickets is caused by vitamin D deficiency but increasing …