Clinical aspects and causes of rickets in a Kenyan population.
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1994Author
Nyakundi, PM
Kinuthia, DW
Orinda, DA.
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Twenty nine patients with rickets were studied in a one year period. The majority of patients (17/29) were below 2 years of age. Most of them had nutritional rickets resulting from a combination of factors. Premature delivery, nonexposure to sunlight, nutritional marasmus and inappropriate dietary intake. Some had familial hypophosphataemic rickets, others had renal tubular acidosis while the rest had rickets with a familial tendency. Both the previous hospital records and the present study indicate that rickets is a persistent problem in children in the community and should be suspected in children who present with features of failure to thrive, among other conditions
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7867549http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30638
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Clinical aspects and causes of rickets in a Kenyan population. Nyakundi PM, Kinuthia DW, Orinda DA. East Afr Med J. 1994 Aug;71(8):536-42.Publisher
Kenya Medical Research Institute, Clinical Research Centre, Nairobi.
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