eMedicine - Rickets - http://www.emedicine.com/PED/topic2014.htm Laurence Finberg, MD provides a description of the condition's pathophysiology, frequency, lab and imaging studies.
Rickets - http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/rickets/DS00813 Mayo Clinic answers how this vitamin D deficiency effects children's bones, who is at risk, non-dietary causes, symptoms, and diagnosis.
Rickets Is Preventable - http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/newspaper/april10a01.html Dr. Barbara Struempler, a nutritionist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System describes how the condition can be avoided.
Cornell Science News: Bangladesh Rickets Project - http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct97/rickets.bpf.html Reports that scientists travel to the Chakaria area to learn why the disease is so prevalent in such a sunny area.
About Rickets - http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/rickets.asp Offers a description of the malady that includes information on the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options.
Rickets - http://www.umm.edu/ency/article/000344.htm University of Maryland Medical Center article that describes the condition. Find a discussion of causes, incidence, and risk factors.
Vitamin D Processing and Familial Rickets - http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C10/C10Links/georgia.ncl.ac.uk/VitaminD/vitaminD.html Offers a comparison between Vitamin D sensitive and resistant forms of the bone disease. Includes a general overview of bone growth and development.
Rickets - http://gait.aidi.udel.edu/res695/homepage/pd_ortho/educate/clincase/ricket.htm A description of the diagnosis and treatment of an adopted Russian child with nutritional rickets at the Alfred I. duPont Institute.
Rickets - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000344.htm Find a description of the disorder, its alternate names, the causes, incidence and risk factors.
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