Background: Nutritional rickets is common despite educational efforts and prenatal
counseling with recent resurgence in the developed world. Possible reasons are parental …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Until recently, rickets secondary to vitamin D deficiency
was considered a medical oddity rather than a clinical reality in Catalonia (Spain). However …

Objectives Poor vitamin D status has been reported to be highly prevalent in many non-
western immigrant groups living in Norway and other western countries. However, data on …

Many children in western societies now live on carbohydrate rich, nutritionally inappropriate
food. This, together with a rising fat intake has led to increasing numbers of obese children …

Objectives A high prevalence of rickets of unknown aetiology has been reported in
Chakaria, Bangladesh. Classically, rickets is caused by vitamin D deficiency but increasing …

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors contributing to nutritional rickets among
the children presenting at Isra University Hospital Hyderabad, Sindh-Pakistan. DESIGN: A …

Introduction: Rickets is a disease of growing bone that is unique to children and
adolescents. It is caused by a failure of osteoid to calcify in growing children. Failure of …

Objective: Because the causes of nutritional rickets in tropical countries are poorly
understood, we conducted a case-control study to determine factors associated with rickets …

Background: Calcium-deficiency rickets is common in south-east Bangladesh and responds
to calcium supplementation. Aim: To evaluate the healing effect on active rickets of a five …

Objective: Vitamin D deficiency continues to be a problem in pediatrics. This report presents
four children, one Caucasian male and three African-American females aged 4 to 24 months …