Maternal Vitamin D Status: Implications for the Development of Infantile Nutritional Rickets

Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 61-79

  Thandrayen, Kebashni ^a   Pettifor, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Calcium; Infantile rickets; Lactation; Pregnancy; Vitamin D; Vitamin D deficiency; Vitamin D requirements

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCITRIOL; CALCIUM; COLECALCIFEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PHOSPHORUS; VITAMIN D;

25 HYDROXYCOLECALCIFEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BONE MINERAL; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CHILD GROWTH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFANT NUTRITION; INFANTILE NUTRITIONAL RICKETS; LACTATION; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; RICKETS; RISK REDUCTION; SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; SUN EXPOSURE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

EID: 84859938203     PISSN: 0889857X     EISSN: 15583163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rdc.2012.03.007     Document Type: Review

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