… Saudi Arabia, which is a rich and sunny country, we report our experience with 34 adolescents
(20 females, 10 males) with rickets. … (58.8%) followed by rickets due to low calcium intake (…

… a high prevalence in adolescent females in Jeddah area and probably in Saudi Arabia in
general. … Many cases of adolescent rickets are undiagnosed and we urge physicians to have a …

… We report the unexpected development of symptoms of rickets in a series of Saudi Arab
adolescents living in a sunny environment. The clinical presentation, and biochemical and …

… adolescents aged 6-18 years, seen at King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia… 1999, who were diagnosed to have rickets or osteomalacia were reviewed. The …

… In this study, we have shown that in a major city of central Saudi Arabia, rickets is caused
by diversity of disorders; with Vitamin D deficiency being the commonest. Nutritional rickets …

… Thus, these results may not be representing the Saudi adolescents as a whole. We … is a
health problem seen in adolescents in Saudi Arabia, even though there is economic affluence …

… rickets due to nutritional deficiency in children from Jazan Province, southwestern Saudi
Arabia… tend to stay throughout late childhood and adolescence of the child as well as pose acute …

… The occurrence of symptomatic rickets in several adolescent girls living in our warm and …
of Saudi Arabia which provides primary and secondary care to 45,000 Saudi Arab children …

… Saudi Arabia.Several studies have revealed that in central and western Saudi Arabia, …
deficiency and its relationship to rickets in children in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. …

… , such as rickets, … among Saudi children and adolescents and in being the first to investigate
the correlation between growth impairment and micronutrients deficiencies in Saudi Arabia. …