Although rickets possibly was described some 2000 years ago, it was not until the industrial
revolution and the rapid movement of rural communities into heavily air-polluted …

This article summarizes the new 2011 report on dietary requirements for calcium and vitamin
D from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). An IOM Committee charged with determining the …

The prevalence of clinical vitamin D deficiency (rickets and osteomalacia) is high in many
parts of the world, and there is a resurgence of rickets among children of ethnic minority …

In this study, we compared three different therapy modes (150,000 IU, 300,000 IU, and
600,000 IU vitamin D po) in infants with nutritional vitamin D deficiency rickets (VDR). Our …

Background: Vitamin D supplementation is known to both prevent and treat rickets, a
disease of hypomineralized bone. Childhood is a period of great bone development and …

Background: Based on regional and anecdotal reports, there is concern that vitamin D–
deficiency rickets is persistent in Canada despite guidelines for its prevention. We sought to …

As a consequence of epidemiological studies showing significant associations of vitamin D
deficiency with a variety of adverse extra-skeletal clinical outcomes including cardiovascular …

Recent case reports highlight the resurgence of rickets in certain groups of breastfed infants.
Infants residing in the North, irrespective of skin color, and dark-skinned African American …

Infantile nutritional rickets is re-emerging as a worldwide health problem despite having
been nearly eradicated in many countries, including the United States, in the 1930s and …

Aim: To assess the risk factors for nutritional rickets among children in Kuwait. Methods: One
hundred and three children with rickets and 102 control children matched for age and …