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 |