Nutritional rickets remains a global public health problem, despite effective and inexpensive
means to prevent and treat the disease. It is most prevalent in the infant/toddler age groups …

Over one billion humans have insufficient circulating levels of vitamin D, and dietary
insufficiency of calcium is common in developing countries. Worldwide, nutritional rickets is …

Severe deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in infants and children and osteomalacia in all
age groups. Severe vitamin D deficiency may also be associated with hypocalcemia, which …

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

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 …

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 …

Nutritional rickets, an ancient disease that was thought to have been cured in the early part
of the 20th century, has made an unexpected comeback in recent years throughout the …

The etiology and pathogenesis of nutritional rickets are becoming progressively clearer.
Vitamin D deficiency has generally been considered the major or only player in the …

The prevalence of clinical vitamin D deficiency (rickets and osteomalacia) is high in many
parts of the world, and there is a resurgence of rickets among children of ethnic minority …

It was only in the early part of the 20th century with the discovery of vitamin D and of the role
that ultraviolet light irradiation plays in vitamin D formation that rational and appropriate …