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 …

Aims: To determine the response to oral calcium in Nigerian children with rickets. Methods:
In a teaching hospital in Western Nigeria, 26 children (13 boys, 13 girls, aged 2–5 years) …

Objective To determine whether children with calcium-deficiency rickets have a better
response to treatment with vitamin D and calcium than with calcium alone. Design …

Objective: Because the causes of nutritional rickets in tropical countries are poorly
understood, we conducted a case-control study to determine factors associated with rickets …

Calcium supplementation is indicated for the treatment of nutritional rickets. Our aim was to
determine the optimal dose of calcium for treatment of children with rickets. Sixty‐five …

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: Comparison of efficacy and safety of two different regimens of vitamin D—600 000
IU as a single intramuscular dose, and 60 000IU orally once a week for 10 weeks—in …

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 …