Vitamin D deficiency is increasing in Switzerland. If cases of rickets are scarce, pediatricians
are often dealing with patients presenting vitamin D deficiency. The increase in vitamin D …

Rickets is a disease of growing children. Historically, its winter prevalence and its
occurrence among children confined to sunless sweat shops and smog-ridden cities during …

Despite the fact that much of Saudi Arabia is sunny throughout most of the year, vitamin D
deficiency rickets is not rare. Different factors are responsible for this phenomenon …

Introduction Nutritional rickets is an emergent disease in Spain, and occurs particularly in
black and dark-skinned infants and children from immigrant populations. The aim of this …

This paper is a contribution to the study of a disease occurring in young children, of which
several cases have been recorded in recent German and English literature, but of which …

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 …

The epidemic scourge of rickets in the 19th century was caused by vitamin D deficiency due
to inadequate sun exposure and resulted in growth retardation, muscle weakness, skeletal …

Context: Nutritional rickets is usually attributed to vitamin D deficiency. Studies from some
tropical countries have postulated low dietary intake of calcium as the cause of nutritional …

Background: Nutritional rickets is considered rare in developed countries. However, reports
on vitamin D deficiency rickets caused by improper lifestyle have recently increased. The …

We present a premature newborn with congenital rickets, born to a mother with untreated
chronic renal insufficiency. X-ray films showed blurred metaphyseal ends and decreased …