Rickets Market Size Escalate Rapidly in the 2018: Dominated by Nestlé, Merck & Co., Kraft Foods, Abbott, Danone and Others-Forecast 2025
“Rickets Market accounted to USD 24.4 billion in 2017
growing at a CAGR of 8.1% during the forecast period of 2018 to 2025.”
Major Market Drivers and Restraints:
- Increasing patient population
- Changing lifestyle
- Poor lifestyle
-Increasing geriatric population
On the basis of types, the market is segmented into:
- vitamin D-related rickets,
- hypocalcemia-related rickets,
- hypophosphatemia-related rickets,
- Rickets – bowed legs was not the primary feature – Jan 2018
- Dickensian diseases are returning – rickets, gout, whooping cough, TB, etc. (low vitamin D)
- Biochemical rickets non-existent if breastfeeding mother got 600,000 IU of vitamin D (3 dollars) – RCT Dec 2017
- Rickets in UK increased 4X in a decade - May 2015
- Rickets reduced 60X - lessons learned by Turkey 2011
- Country gave free vitamin D to EVERY child
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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