A Comparison of Calcium, Vitamin D, or Both for Nutritional Rickets in Nigerian Children
Open Access
- 19 August 1999
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 341 (8) , 563-568
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199908193410803
Abstract
Nutritional rickets remains prevalent in many tropical countries despite the fact that such countries have ample sunlight. Some postulate that a deficiency of dietary calcium, rather than vitamin D, is often responsible for rickets after infancy.Keywords
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