Background: Nutritional rickets is a public health concern in developing countries despite tropical climates and a re-emerging issue in developed countries. In this study, we reviewed pediatric admission data from the Clinical Information Network (CIN) to help determine hospital and region based prevalence of rickets in three regions of Kenya (Central Kenya, Western Kenya and Nairobi County). W...

The child had been born to a 19-year-old gravida 2, para 2 mother via cesarean birth secondary to malpresentation and fetal distress. The child weighed 3.06 kg at birth. She currently weighed 6 kg (5th percentile); she was 62 cm tall (5th to 25th percentile); head circumference, 46 cm (95th percentile or higher). Laboratory findings: calcium, 9.7 mg/dL; phosphorus, 2.8 mg/dL, immunoreactive par...

Regional variation in the prevalence of Asian rickets was examined in Coventry, Bradford and Glasgow. Records of 152 weeks of daylight outdoor exposure were obtained from 104 Glasgow Asian children, 53 of whom had been treated for rickets. Records of seven-day weighed dietary intake were obtained from 84 Asian children, 43 of whom had been treated for rickets. There was a marked north-south gra...

Rickets is a common metabolic bone disease in infants. The predominant cause of rickets is vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is required for bone formation. The role of ghrelin in bone metabolism is unclear, but it may have an indirect effect. There are also reports in the literature suggesting that ghrelin acts directly on osteoblasts as a positive regulator. To evaluate the relationship between...

An 8 1/2-year-old girl presented with rickets. This had developed despite a normal diet and in the absence of symptoms, signs, or laboratory evidence of malabsorption, hepatic or renal disease. The rickets healed with physiological doses of 1-alpha-hydroxy-cholecalciferol. It is suggested that this case provides evidence for genetic and metabolic heterogeneity in vitamin D-dependent rickets.

Of thirty children, aged between one and four years, with active rickets examined by Findlay (1909), only nine were anaemic, and he concluded that the anaemia was due to secondary complications of the rickets. Hess (1929) states that anaemia is usually found in advanced rickets, but is not characteristic. Parsons (1934) says that anaemia is in no sense a symptom of rickets, although a degree of...

OBJECTIVES Poor vitamin D status has been reported to be highly prevalent in many non-western immigrant groups living in Norway and other western countries. However, data on rickets are scarce, and the aim of the current study was to identify new cases of nutritional rickets in Norway in the period 2008-2012 among children under the age of 5 years. DESIGN Register-based cohort study. SETTIN...

prevention and treatment of the rickets of prematurity is an important aspect of the care of preterm infants. the purpose of this study was to compare the prophylactic effects of different doses of vitamin d on the clinical, biochemical and radiological indices of the rickets of prematurity. in a randomized clinical trial, 68 premature infants (<38 weeks) with birth weight under 2000 g, randoml...

Deficiency rickets results from a deficiency of vitamin D that is responsible for deficient calcium absorption, leading to failure of bone mineralization and cartilage bone growth, especially in children. We report the case of a 9-year-old girl who shows signs of rickets. Her family history, which includes similar malformations in several family members, led us to suggest vitamin D-resistant ri...

Rickets, though not a common disease in the affiliated population, is one of the diseases which affect the growth of children in the developing countries (where the nutritional deficiency is common). Rickets can be characteristically identified using the clinical features and they can be confirmed using biochemical investigation. In this article, we will discuss the various features of rickets ...