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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Background: There is no local data about rickets available in Hazara Division, while clinical
experience suggests that problem exists in this area with abundant sunlight. We carried out …

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 …

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 …

Context: Nutritional rickets is usually attributed to vitamin D deficiency. Studies from some
tropical countries have postulated low dietary intake of calcium as the cause of nutritional …

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 …