Clinical rickets in Ibadan, Nigeria
- 31 July 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 45 (1) , 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0035-9203(51)90644-x
Abstract
A mild type of rickets has been found to be rather prevalent among African children in Nigeria. This condition is believed to be due to the habit of prolonged nursing of children and a concomitant nuturitional deficiency because of such an unbalanced diet.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Rickets in SingaporeArchives of Disease in Childhood, 1946
- The incidence of rickets in war-timeArchives of Disease in Childhood, 1944