Background: Nutritional rickets is a common problem in Pakistan especially in Karachi with
majority of the population living in enclosed housing and slums having limited or no sun …

Vitamin D deficiency rickets, a disease once considered conquered, is being diagnosed with
increasing frequency. Factors evident in at-risk children include dark skin, long-term breast …

Rickets is a bone disease associated with abnormal serum calcium and phosphate levels.
The clinical presentation is heterogeneous and depends on the age of onset and …

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 …

Abstract Purpose of Review Nutritional rickets and osteomalacia are common in dark-
skinned and migrant populations. Their global incidence is rising due to changing …

Objective To assess the efficacy of combined vitamin D with calcium and vitamin D or cal-
cium alone in rickets of vitamin D deficiency by meta-analysis method. Methods Searches …

Nutritional rickets continues to be a significant health problem for children worldwide with
recent evidence of increasing incidence in many developed countries. It is due to vitamin D …

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 …

Reports of hypovitaminosis D among adults in the United States have drawn attention to the
vitamin D status of children. National data on hypovitaminosis D among children are not yet …