Nutritional Ricketts in Rastafarian Children
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Nutritional rickets in children, particularly of Asian immigrants to the U.K., has been well documented over the past 20 years. Its incidence among infafits whose parents are Rastafarians of West Indian origin has not previously been described. In a 3-month period four cases of florid nutritional rickets were discovered at this hospital, and a new 'at-risk' group may have been identified.
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