Vitamin D deficiency causes rickets in an urban informal settlement in Kenya and is associated with malnutrition
The commonest cause of rickets worldwide is vitamin D deficiency, but studies from sub-Saharan Africa describe an endemic vitamin D-independent form that responds to dietary calcium enrichment. The extent to which calcium-deficiency rickets is the dominant form across sub-Saharan Africa and in other...
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
2017
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