The study: Agarwal, et al.[1] described the profile of 300 children with clinical rickets from all
admissions (mostly respiratory or gastrointestinal symptoms, or convulsions) to the pediatric …

Nutritional rickets is a significant global childhood health problem. It has been described in
at least 59 countries in the last 20 years 1 with prevalence rates ranging from 10%-70 …

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 is casued by vitamin D deficiency due to lack of exposure to sunlight.
Neonatal rickets occurs only in infants born to mothers with very severe osteomalacia …

Nutritional rickets remains a public health problem in many countries, despite dramatic
declines in the prevalence of the condition in many developed countries since the …

Summary and Conclusion Rickets ranks third in the list of nutritional disorders of
hospitalized children below the age of 5 years. Its incidence was 0.95% of all the indoor …

In most developing countries, nutritional rickets is a major health problem. The aim of this
study was to explore the magnitude of nutritional rickets among Saudi infants, and the …

Background: Rickets disease frequently caused by insufficient of vitamin D. Nevertheless,
subsequent researchers have attributed it to a calcium insufficiency throughout the eating …

The paper by Bhalala and coworkers, published in the current issue of the journal,
emphasizes a topic that has been causing growing concern among nutritionists …

Worldwide, nutritional rickets continues to be an evolving problem with several causes. This
paper provides an updated literature review characterising the prevalence, aetiology …