… that in Indian children, rickets develops when low dietary calcium intake coexists with a low
or borderline vitamin D nutritional status. An effective preventive strategy for rickets should be …

… children [8] in India have shown that calcium intake of our population is much below the
recommended allowance. The diet in India … two on healing of nutritional rickets in Indian children. …

… Rickets results from defective mineralization of the growth plate and is invariably seen in
growing children … occurs both in adults and children alongside rickets 1 . The leading causes of …

… Nutritional rickets continues to remain commonest metabolic bone disease in Indian
children, … Rickets is a disease of growing bones. Hence, special emphasis will be placed in …

… has been evaluated prospectively in children with nutritional rickets at the time of diagnosis
and throughout treatment… Children in India have high rates of vitamin D deficiency and …

… In conclusion, nutritional rickets exists in tropical India and its etiology is different in younger
children and adolescents. Our study will help in guiding public health measures in tropical …

… rickets in a large proportion of Indian children as well as in children from tropical countries.…
of nutritional rickets, but adequate sunshine exposure is necessary for the formation of vit D. …

… This paper provides a global perspective of the prevalence of nutritional rickets and will
discuss the pathogenesis of the disease as it relates to our increasing understanding of calcium …

… for treatment of nutritional rickets. Oral route was … nutritional rickets recommend age-based
daily or weekly/bi-weekly dose of oral vitamin D for treatment of nutritional rickets in children…

… Rickets has been described in adolescents of Indian and Pakistani descent in the United
Kingdom and in the Middle East [220], [221], while hypovitaminosis D has been reported in …