Purpose: Rickets is a common disorder among children under five years mostly in the
developing countries. It negatively affect normal growth and development of children thereby …

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is a very common micronutrient deficiency in our country
and ranks among the 5 most common disease in children worldwide. Methods: To study the …

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

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 …

Objective: To determine the frequency of Vitamin D deficiency in children presenting with
rickets. Methods: Descriptive case series was conducted at the department of Paediatrics …

Background: Rickets is a disease of growing bones which occurs before fusion of epiphyses.
It is defined as failure of mineralization of growing bone or osteoid tissue. Vitamin D comes …

Purpose: Rickets is a common disorder among children under five years mostly in the
developing countries. It negatively affect normal growth and development of children thereby …

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 …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency rickets among female
adolescents and assess its relation to calcium intake and sun exposure. METHODS: Four …