Background: Vitamin D and calcium deficiencies are common worldwide, causing nutritional
rickets and osteomalacia, which have a major impact on health, growth, and development of …

Vitamin D deficiency, which classically manifests as bone disease (either rickets or
osteomalacia), is characterized by impaired bone mineralization. More recently, the term …

Humans learned to exploit ruminants as a source of milk about 10,000 years ago. Since
then, the use of domesticated ruminants as a source of milk and dairy products has …

The epidemic scourge of rickets in the 19th century was caused by vitamin D deficiency due
to inadequate sun exposure and resulted in growth retardation, muscle weakness, skeletal …

The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease, Second Edition is a comprehensive source
dedicated to better understanding this group of conditions that have significant …

Malnutrition—in the form of insufficient energy intakes—affects millions of people worldwide
and the negative impact of this kind of hunger is well acknowledged, not least by …

Vitamin D is a key hormone in the regulation of calcium and phosphorus metabolism and
plays a pivotal role in bone health, particularly during pediatric age when nutritional rickets …

Nutritional rickets remains a public health problem in many countries, despite dramatic
declines in the prevalence of the condition in many developed countries since the …

Most people associate fluoride with the practice of intentionally adding fluoride to public
drinking water supplies for the prevention of tooth decay. However, fluoride can also enter …

Introduction: Nutritional rickets has been described from at least 59 countries in the last 20
years. Its spectrum of causes differs in different regions of the world. Methods: We conducted …