Nutritional rickets is increasingly diagnosed in children of ethnic origin [5]

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 90, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1203-1204

  Odeka, E ^a   Tan, J ^a  

^a ROYAL OLDHAM HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

BIRTH WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; ETHNOLOGY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LETTER; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETS; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; ASIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RICKETS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 27644570052     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

1. Ladhani S, Srinivasan L, Buchanan C, et al. Presentation of vitamin D deficiency. Arch Dis Child 2004;89:781-4.
2. Mughal MZ. Resurgence of vitamin D deficiency rickets in the UK. Osteoporosis Review 2005;13(1):10-13.
3. Department of Health, Nutrition and Bone Health: with particular reference to calcium and vitamin D. Report of the Subgroup on Bone Health, Working Group of the nutritional Status of the Population of the Committee on Medical Aspects of the Food Nutrition Policy. Rep Health Soc Subj (Lond) 1998;49:iii-vii, 1-24.