Due to rapid urbanization and high food prices and in the absence of nutrition programs,
school children from urban areas in West Africa often have insufficient and inadequate diet …

To the armchair pundit, advertise-ments are always a useful antidote to the soporific parts of
the scientific journal or television programme. Brief, dramatic, witty, or sentimental, they …

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 …

Background: The role of vitamin D in breast cancer prevention is equivocal. Saudi Arabian
women may be at greater risk of vitamin D deficiency because of a darker skin type and a …

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

Severe vitamin D deficiency in mothers and their breastfed infants is a significant health
problem in the Middle East. Supplementation of the breastfed infant alone with the …

Objectives Forearm fractures account for a significant proportion of childhood injuries and
seem to be increasing in incidence. Poor vitamin D status increases overall fracture risk in …

This review discusses the recent literature on pain conditions in children that should be of
interest to rheumatologists. The focus of the review is therefore on musculoskeletal pains in …

ObjectiveFew data exist looking at vitamin D status and bone health in school-aged boys
and girls from Saudi Arabia. The present study aimed to determine the extent of poor vitamin …

Background: Maintaining a normal vitamin D status is important for both skeletal and extra-
skeletal health. Recent data show that vitamin D deficiency is endemic in women residing in …