Rickets is an often-neglected, painful, and disabling childhood condition of impaired bone
mineralization. In this case series we describe a cluster of 29 children with severe, painful …

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 …

Introduction: Nutritional rickets has been described from at least 59 countries in the last 20
years. Its spectrum of causes differs in different regions of the world. Methods: We conducted …

Rickets is a metabolic bone disease characterized by failure of normal mineralization of the
cartilage of growing bones, causing softening and weakening of the bones, leading to …

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 …

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 …

Objective To review experiences of nutritional rickets and osteomalacia in school children
and adolescents at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia …

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 …

In this retrospective study from Saudi Arabia, which is a rich and sunny country, we report
our experience with 34 adolescents (20 females, 10 males) with rickets. The commonest …

Rickets usually occurs in the first two years of life and in puberty since metabolic demand is
increased due to rapid growth in these two critical periods of life, when peak bone mass is …