Nutritional rickets around the world: Causes and future directions

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-16

  Thacher, Tom D ^d   Fischer, Philip R ^a   Strand, Mark A ^b   Pettifor, John M ^c  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Evergreen   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOS   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM; VITAMIN D;

NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; RICKETS;

AFRICA; ASIA; CALCIUM DEFICIENCY; CALCIUM INTAKE; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PUBLICATION; REVIEW; RICKETS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TROPICS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEANING;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ASIA; CALCIUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPE; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE EAST; PREVALENCE; RICKETS; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33644510140     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/146532806X90556     Document Type: Review

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