- A closer look at rickets and vitamin D deficiency in Manitoba: The tip of the iceberg Aug 2018
Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki - 1 in 2 Russian kids have rickets
- Turkey gave 400 IU vitamin D to needy infants and reduced Rickets by 60X - 2011
- Perhaps Russia should learn from Turkey
- Rickets needs Vitamin D and Calcium - Global Consensus Jan 2016
- Rickets Market size of 24 billion dollars is growing fast (low vitamin D) – Aug 2018
- Sunshine can prevent rickets – Poland 1822
- Rickets in UK increased 4X in a decade - May 2015
- 1 in 18 kids in the Ancient Roman Empire had rickets (low Vitamin D) – Aug 2018
- Rickets in Japan increased 3 X recently, similar to increases in other countries – June 2017
- Rickets in Norway – 93 percent had darker skin (lower vitamin D) – May 2017
- Neonate Rickets was virtually always associated with very low maternal vitamin D – Dec 2014
- Mongolian women have the lowest levels of vitamin D in the world – Sept 2013 ~60%
- Nutritional rickets around the world: an update - 2016
PDF is available free at Sci-Hub 10.1080/20469047.2016.1248170
Nigeria 1 in 170; Gambia 1 in 70; Bangladesh 1 in 12
Overview of Rickets and vitamin D contains the following summary
Rate of rickets is usually < 0.1% of births, unless dark skin, breastfed, preemie, twin, Mongolian, or Russian
Rate of rickets has greatly increased with the drop in vitamin D levels during the past 40 years
400 IU can prevent/treat most rickets Turkey gave vitamin D to EVERY child and eliminated Rickets
Can have rickets without a low serum level of vitamin D (~20% of the time)
Giving enough Vitamin D to the mother (before and after birth) PREVENTS most forms of Rickets
Rate of rickets in some countries varies from 10% to 70% (typically poor health overall)
Rickets has been more than doubling in many countries
Rickets is strongly associated with severe breathing problems (weak ribs)
Bowed legs is not the primary indication of rickets (3 other indications of rickets are seen more often)
Rickets is typically due to low cellular Vitamin D - April 2024
Some Rickets is due to poor genes - Vitamin D needed lifelong – June 2020
Vitamin D and Rickets consensus took 80 years
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