Clinical aspects and causes of rickets in a Kenyan population.

dc.contributor.author	Nyakundi, PM
dc.contributor.author	Kinuthia, DW
dc.contributor.author	Orinda, DA.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-06-10T10:02:53Z
dc.date.available	2013-06-10T10:02:53Z
dc.date.issued	1994
dc.identifier.citation	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.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7867549
dc.identifier.uri	http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/30638
dc.description.abstract	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	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.title	Clinical aspects and causes of rickets in a Kenyan population.	en
dc.type	Article	en
local.publisher	Kenya Medical Research Institute, Clinical Research Centre, Nairobi.	en