Is vitamin D deficiency an underreported issue in refugee health?: Two cases of infants presenting with vitamin D-deficiency rickets

Canadian Family Physician

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 641-643

  Guigné, Francoise ^a   Duke, Pauline ^b   Rourke, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

25 HYDROXYVITAMIN D; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; PARATHYROID HORMONE; VITAMIN D;

ANEMIA; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; MALE; NOTE; PARATHYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; RICKETS; VARUS KNEE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION;

AFRICA; BREAST FEEDING; CANADA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RICKETS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUNLIGHT; VITAMIN D;

EID: 84879670319     PISSN: 0008350X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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