2. List the clinical findings in rickets. 3. Delineate the clinical finding that can direct
physicians toward infants who are at highest risk for rickets.

Justification The emerging literature on prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in India,
prevention and treatment strategies of rickets, and extra-skeletal benefits of vitamin D …

Rickets is characterized by impaired mineralization and ossification of the growth plates of
growing children caused by a variety of disorders, the most frequent of which is nutritional …

Low dietary calcium intakes and poor vitamin D status are common findings in children living
in developing countries. Despite many of the countries lying within the tropics and …

Vitamin D is essential for the maintenance of calcium homeostasis and bone mineralization.
Overt deficiency of vitamin D causes rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. Vitamin …

Despite its abundant sunshine the Middle East, a region spanning latitudes from 12° N to
42° N allowing vitamin D synthesis year round, registers some of the lowest levels of vitamin …

EDITORIALS THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS AUGUST 2000 many of whom were reported
to be receiving “long-term breast feeding.” 13 Case reports and case series of infants with …

Rickets was first described in great detail in the mid 17th century and was affecting a great
number of children in major European cities. The disease, however, existed already in the …

Introduction Rickets is typically characterized by bone deformities due to defective bone
mineralization and chondrocyte maturation in growing bones. However, infantile rickets …

Objective: To determine the clinical spectrum of rickets among black children admitted to
King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban. Design: Prospective study of black children with rickets …