Abstract
Rickets is the disease of a growing skeleton and results from impaired apoptosis of hypertrophic chondrocytes and mineralization of the growth plate. Nutritionally induced rickets, secondary to vitamin D and/or calcium deficiency, remains a major global problem. In this review, we discuss pathogenesis, clinical signs, investigation and management of nutritional rickets.
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Research funding: None declared.
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Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.
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Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Ethical approval: The participants’ parents gave written, informed consent. The investigations were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Helsinki Declaration.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Reviews
- Approach to nutritional rickets
- Subclinical hyperthyroidism in children
- Original Articles
- Can thyroid elastography with ultrasound be used to stage children with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?
- Congenital hypothyroidism in children with eutopic gland or thyroid hemiagenesis: prognostic factors for transient vs. permanent hypothyroidism
- Comparison of developmental outcomes in children with permanent and transient congenital hypothyroidism
- Impact of overweight and obesity on epicardial adipose tissue in children with type 1 diabetes
- Peripheral arterial disease among children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in a Nigerian teaching hospital
- The WHO-5 well-being questionnaire in type 1 diabetes: screening for depression in pediatric and young adult subjects
- Clinical correlation of 2D shear wave elastography findings in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus without autoimmune thyroiditis
- Molecular analysis of MKRN3 gene in Turkish girls with sporadic and familial idiopathic central precocious puberty
- Case Reports
- ALG11-CDG: novel variant and review of the literature
- Betamethasone cream to treat diapers rash causing Cushing syndrome
- Rapid-onset obesity, hypothalamic dysfunction, hypoventilation, and autonomic dysregulation syndrome – neuro-endocrine tumours (ROHHAD-NET): case series and learning points
- Lathosterolosis: a rare cholesterol metabolism disorder with a wide range of clinical variability
- Urea as safe treatment for hyponatremia due to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone in infant with solitary central incisor and neurofibromatosis-1
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Reviews
- Approach to nutritional rickets
- Subclinical hyperthyroidism in children
- Original Articles
- Can thyroid elastography with ultrasound be used to stage children with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis?
- Congenital hypothyroidism in children with eutopic gland or thyroid hemiagenesis: prognostic factors for transient vs. permanent hypothyroidism
- Comparison of developmental outcomes in children with permanent and transient congenital hypothyroidism
- Impact of overweight and obesity on epicardial adipose tissue in children with type 1 diabetes
- Peripheral arterial disease among children with type 1 diabetes mellitus in a Nigerian teaching hospital
- The WHO-5 well-being questionnaire in type 1 diabetes: screening for depression in pediatric and young adult subjects
- Clinical correlation of 2D shear wave elastography findings in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus without autoimmune thyroiditis
- Molecular analysis of MKRN3 gene in Turkish girls with sporadic and familial idiopathic central precocious puberty
- Case Reports
- ALG11-CDG: novel variant and review of the literature
- Betamethasone cream to treat diapers rash causing Cushing syndrome
- Rapid-onset obesity, hypothalamic dysfunction, hypoventilation, and autonomic dysregulation syndrome – neuro-endocrine tumours (ROHHAD-NET): case series and learning points
- Lathosterolosis: a rare cholesterol metabolism disorder with a wide range of clinical variability
- Urea as safe treatment for hyponatremia due to syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone in infant with solitary central incisor and neurofibromatosis-1