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 …

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 …

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 …

Rickets is a common condition in children due to defective mineralization of growing bone
caused by a deficiency or impaired metabolism of vitamin D, phosphorus, or calcium leading …

Rickets develops when growing bones fail to mineralize. In most cases, the diagnosis is
established with a thorough history and physical examination and confirmed by laboratory …

Rickets may have been thought to be a'thing of the past'. In fact at the beginning of the 20th
century, it has been estimated that 85% of children living in northern hemisphere urban …

Clinical rickets is reemerging in industrialized and developing countries. Clinical rickets
among preschoolers, associated risk factors, intervention, and outcomes in a rural Kenyan …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the general features of rickets, classification of the
various causes of the disease, and nutritional rickets. Rickets is a clinical syndrome …

Background: It is a childhood disease that causes weak or soft bones and may be exposed
to fractures and skeletal deformities. Methodology: across–sectional descriptive study was …