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Rickets, nutritional disorder characterized by skeletal deformities. Rickets is caused by a decreased concentration of the mineral hydroxyapatite in bones and cartilage due to low levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood. Vitamin D is essential for the maintenance of normal calcium and phosphorus levels. Classic rickets, a deficiency disease of children characterized by improper development or hardening of bones, is due to lack of sufficient vitamin D in the diet, or to insufficient ultraviolet radiation from direct sunlight, a lack that prevents conversion of the element 7-dehydrocholesterol in the skin to vitamin D. The type of skeletal deformities depends largely on the child's age when the vitamin-D deficiency occurs. A child who has not yet learned to walk develops vertebral curvatures; a walking child develops leg curvatures. "Rickets," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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• 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.

• eMedicine - Rickets

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/985510-overview
  Laurence Finberg, MD provides a description of the condition's pathophysiology, frequency, lab and imaging studies.

• NHS Choices: Rickets

  http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/rickets/
  Information on this rare disease that affects bone development in children including causes, symptoms, diagnosis, risks and treatment.

• 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.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.

• Rickets

  http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rickets/basics/definition/con-20027091
  Mayo Clinic answers how this vitamin D deficiency effects children's bones, who is at risk, non-dietary causes, symptoms, and diagnosis.

• Rickets

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000344.htm
  Find a description of the disorder, its alternate names, the causes, incidence and risk factors.

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