Nutritional rickets is casued by vitamin D deficiency due to lack of exposure to sunlight.
Neonatal rickets occurs only in infants born to mothers with very severe osteomalacia …

Objectives Nutritional rickets (NR) is still an important problem and one which increasing
influxes of immigrants are further exacerbating. This study evaluated cases of mostly …

A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the nutritional status of the children with
rickets aged< 5 years at District Headquarter Hospital, Upper Dir in which 50 children were …

Introduction. Rickets is softening of bones caused by defective mineralization of the cartilage
in the epiphyseal growth plate, causing widening of the ends of long bones, growth …

Aim: To assess the risk factors for nutritional rickets among children in Kuwait. Methods: One
hundred and three children with rickets and 102 control children matched for age and …

Nutritional rickets, caused by vitamin D and/or calcium deficiency is by far the most common
cause of rickets. In resource-limited settings, it is therefore not uncommon to treat rickets with …

The relative importance of calcium vs. vitamin D deficiency in the etiology of nutritional
rickets in the tropics may be different in children compared with adolescents. We studied …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of clinical manifestations of various types
of rickets in patients could be effective in therapeutic strategies. A total of eleven child …

Background: Rickets disease frequently caused by insufficient of vitamin D. Nevertheless,
subsequent researchers have attributed it to a calcium insufficiency throughout the eating …