Rickets is a bone disease associated with abnormal serum calcium and phosphate levels.
The clinical presentation is heterogeneous and depends on the age of onset and …

Rickets develops when growing bones fail to mineralize. In most cases, the diagnosis is
established with a thorough history and physical examination and confirmed by laboratory …

Rickets is a common bone disease worldwide that is associated with disturbances in
calcium and phosphate homeostasis and can lead to short stature and joint deformities …

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 …

Rickets is a disease of the growing child arising from alterations in calcium and phosphate
homeostasis resulting in impaired apoptosis of hypertrophic chondrocytes in the growth …

Rickets is a metabolic bone disease that develops as a result of inadequate mineralization
of growing bone due to disruption of calcium, phosphorus and/or vitamin D metabolism …

Nutritional rickets is a major public health problem in many countries of the world. The
disease is characterized by deformities of the long bones, enlargement of the wrists and …

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

Defective mineralization of the growth plate and preformed osteoid result in rickets and
osteomalacia, respectively. The leading cause of rickets worldwide is solar vitamin D …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the general features of rickets, classification of the
various causes of the disease, and nutritional rickets. Rickets is a clinical syndrome …