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 …

Nutritional rickets in Nigerian children usually results from dietary calcium insufficiency.
Typical dietary calcium intakes in African children are about 200mg daily (approximately 20 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …