Rickets in Sheep

Rickets in Tehranian Children: Occurance of Chronic Sinusitis and Giardiosis in Late Rickets

SUMMARY A review of out patients diagnosed with rickets during last one and half year revealed 135 cases of rickets among totally 1550 patients refered to our pediatric infectious clinics. Diagnosis were made by the clinical, biochemical, radiological and pathological findings. All the patients were treated by Vit D as needed, follow up examinations were done at least for 6m. We could not see ...

Rickets

BIOCHEMICAL FINDINGS IN RICKETS AMONG ADOLESCENT GIRLS

 ABSTRACT Background: To determine daily calcium, Vitamin D intake and serum biochemical findings of rickets in adolescent girls. Methods: A total of 414 healthy adolescent student girls aged 11-15 years were evaluated from various areas of Tehran, Iran with different socioeconomic status. A randomized, cross-sectional, prospective and descriptive study was undertaken for calculation of daily c...

Nutritional rickets in Georgia.

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Rickets in India

India is the seventh largest country in the world with great diversity in its topography, climate, ecology, and demographic characteristics. Its land mass falls between 7° and 37° of latitude South. Except for the northern reaches of the country—the Himalayan states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Arunachal Pradesh—where the minimum temperature falls below 0°C in winter, mos...