Recent trends and clinical features of childhood vitamin D deficiency presenting to a children's hospital in Glasgow

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 694-696

  Ahmed, S F ^a   Franey, C ^a   McDevitt, H ^a   Somerville, L ^a   Butler, S ^a   Galloway, P ^a,b   Reynolds, L ^c   Shaikh, M G ^a   Wallace, A M ^b  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CALCIUM; PHOSPHATE; VITAMIN D;

ADOLESCENT; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARM SWELLING; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; LETHARGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SOUTH ASIA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED KINGDOM; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; WRIST DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RICKETS; SCOTLAND; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 79959818921     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.173195     Document Type: Article

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