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Nutritional rickets without vitamin D deficiency in the Chakaria Region of Bangladesh

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: 1998. United Kingdom : Oxford University Press,ISSN:
  • 0142-6338
  • 1465-3664 (Online)
Subject(s): In: Journal of Tropical Pediatrics v. 45, no. 5, 1999.Summary: To understand nutritional rickets in Bangladesh better, 14 rachitic and 13 'unaffected' children were evaluated. Seventy per cent of children with active rickets had no evidence of either vitamin D deficiency or familial rickets. Rickets in Bangladesh is probably related to calcium deficiency. Abnormalities in 'unaffected' children suggest that subclinical calcium insufficiency is common.
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To understand nutritional rickets in Bangladesh better, 14 rachitic and 13 'unaffected' children were evaluated. Seventy per cent of children with active rickets had no evidence of either vitamin D deficiency or familial rickets. Rickets in Bangladesh is probably related to calcium deficiency. Abnormalities in 'unaffected' children suggest that subclinical calcium insufficiency is common.

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