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"D or not D"--that is the question.

scientific article published in February 1997

14th Vitamin D Workshop consensus on vitamin D nutritional guidelines

article

A comparison of body composition estimates using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and air-displacement plethysmography in South African neonates.

scientific article published on June 2016

A comparison of calcium, vitamin D, or both for nutritional rickets in Nigerian children.

scientific article published on August 1999

A global consensus on the prevention and management of nutritional rickets: How does this change policy in South Africa?

article

A new broom?

Absence of calcitriol-mediated nongenomic actions in isolated intestinal cells of the damara mole-rat (Cryptomys damarensis).

scientific article published in July 1994

Adaptation of calcium absorption during treatment of nutritional rickets in Nigerian children

scientific article

Age at menarche and the evidence for a positive secular trend in urban South Africa

scientific article published on January 2009

Appendicular bone mass in children with a high prevalence of low dietary calcium intakes.

scientific article published on November 1997

Application of Intervention Mapping to develop a community-based health promotion pre-pregnancy intervention for adolescent girls in rural South Africa: Project Ntshembo (Hope)

scientific article

Approaches for assessing the role of household socioeconomic status on child anthropometric measures in urban South Africa

scientific article published in January 2009

Association Between Early Life Growth and Blood Pressure Trajectories in Black South African Children

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

Association of socioeconomic status change between infancy and adolescence, and blood pressure, in South African young adults: Birth to Twenty Cohort

scientific article

Associations between household and neighbourhood socioeconomic status and systolic blood pressure among urban South African adolescents

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

Associations between physical activity and bone mass in black and white South African children at age 9 yr.

scientific article

Blood pressure tracking in urban black South African children: birth to twenty cohort

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Body Image Satisfaction, Eating Attitudes and Perceptions of Female Body Silhouettes in Rural South African Adolescents

scientific article

Bone Mass and Its Relevance in Sub-Saharan Black Populations

scientific article published on 7 July 2015

Bone Mineral Density, Body Composition, and Mineral Homeostasis Over 24 Months in Urban South African Women With HIV Exposed to Antiretroviral Therapy

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Bone Response to Phosphate Salts, Ergocalciferol, and Calcitriol in Hypophosphatemic Vitamin D-Resistant Rickets ⬇️

scientific article published on October 30, 1980

Bone disease in African children with slipped capital femoral epiphysis: histomorphometry of iliac crest biopsies

scientific article published in March 1998

Bone health and HIV in resource-limited settings: a scoping review

scientific article published on 25 March 2016

Bone mass accretion rates in pre- and early-pubertal South African black and white children in relation to habitual physical activity and dietary calcium intakes

scientific article

Bone mass and bone size in pre- or early pubertal 10-year-old black and white South African children and their parents.

scientific article

Bone mass, body composition and vitamin D status of ARV-naïve, urban, black South African women with HIV infection, stratified by CD₄ count.

scientific article published on 30 May 2013

Bone mineral density in Nigerian children after discontinuation of calcium supplementation.

scientific article

Calcium and inorganic phosphorus metabolism in naked mole rats Heterocephalus glaber is only indirectly affected by cholecalciferol

scientific article published in January 1993

Calcium and vitamin D controversies—do we need to adjust vitamin D requirements for calcium intakes?

Calcium and vitamin D metabolism in children in developing countries

scientific article

Calcium deficiency in rural black children in South Africa--a comparison between rural and urban communities

scientific article published on December 1, 1979

Calcium metabolism and bone mass in female rabbits during skeletal maturation: effects of dietary calcium intake

scientific article published in July 2001

Case-control study of breast milk calcium in mothers of children with and without nutritional rickets.

scientific article published in July 2006

Changes in Bone Mineral Density, Body Composition, Vitamin D Status, and Mineral Metabolism in Urban HIV-Positive South African Women Over 12 Months

scientific article

Changes in dietary habits and eating practices in adolescents living in urban South Africa: the birth to twenty cohort

scientific article published on 30 March 2012

Changes in eating attitudes, body esteem and weight control behaviours during adolescence in a South African cohort

scientific article

Clinical practice: diagnostic approach to the rachitic child

scientific article published on 21 July 2011

Cohort Profile: Mandela's children: the 1990 Birth to Twenty study in South Africa

scientific article published on 12 March 2007

Comment: Childhood nutrition and social support

scientific article published on 01 August 2007

Comparison of Cross-Sectional Geometry of the Proximal Femur in White and Black Women from Detroit and Johannesburg

article

Comparison of Limestone and Ground Fish for Treatment of Nutritional Rickets in Children in Nigeria

scientific article

Comparison of metabolism of vitamins D2 and D3 in children with nutritional rickets

scientific article

Comparisons of body size, composition, and whole body bone mass between North American and South African children

scientific article

Congenital malformations associated with the administration of oral anticoagulants during pregnancy

scientific article published on 01 March 1975

Corpus callosum thickness on mid-sagittal MRI as a marker of brain volume: a pilot study in children with HIV-related brain disease and controls.

scientific article published on 27 January 2015

Correlating brain volume and callosal thickness with clinical and laboratory indicators of disease severity in children with HIV-related brain disease.

scientific article published on 23 May 2014

Correlation between CD4+ lymphocyte counts, concurrent antigen skin test and tuberculin skin test reactivity in human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected and -uninfected children with tuberculosis

scientific article published in September 1999

Cortical bone development in black and white South African children: iliac crest histomorphometry

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Cortical hyperostosis in an infant on prolonged prostaglandin infusion: case report and literature review

scientific article published on April 2004

Current socio-economic measures, and not those measured during infancy, affect bone mass in poor urban South african children

scientific article

Daily versus single dose vitamin D therapy in children and adolescents, how good is the evidence? Evidence based medicine viewpoint, nutritionist's viewpoint, pediatrician's viewpoint

scientific article published on August 2015

Determinants of bone size and strength in 13-year-old South African children: The influence of ethnicity, sex and pubertal maturation ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

Determinants of relative skeletal maturity in South African children

scientific article published on 30 October 2011

Dietary Calcium Deficiency and Rickets

Dietary intake and body composition in HIV-positive and -negative South African women

scientific article

Differences in bone size and bone mass between black and white 10-year-old South African children.

scientific article published on 14 December 2005

Does vitamin D status track through adolescence?

scientific article

Early Follow-Up of Very Low Birth Weight Infants After Hospital Discharge with Respect to Growth and Mineral Homeostasis ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1988

Early response to vitamin D2 in children with calcium deficiency rickets.

scientific article published in December 2006

Eating attitudes, body image satisfaction and self-esteem of South African Black and White male adolescents and their perception of female body silhouettes

scientific article published on January 2014

Effect of adiposity, season, diet and calcium or vitamin D supplementation on the vitamin D status of healthy urban African and Asian-Indian adults

scientific article published on 30 May 2014

Effect of ethnicity and sex on the growth of the axial and appendicular skeleton of children living in a developing country

scientific article

Effect of oral cholecalciferol supplementation at physiological and supraphysiological doses in naturally vitamin D3-deficient subterranean damara mole rats (Cryptomys damarensis) ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 1991

Endemic skeletal fluorosis in children: hypocalcemia and the presence of renal resistance to parathyroid hormone

scientific article published in November 1989

Erratum to: Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective

scholarly article published in Journal of Bone and Mineral Metabolism

Ethnic and sex differences in skeletal maturation among the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa

scientific article

Ethnicity and bone: a South African perspective ⬇️

scientific article published on April 26, 2011

Even transient rapid infancy weight gain is associated with higher BMI in young adults and earlier menarche.

scientific article published on 16 March 2015

Exacerbation of rickets and osteomalacia by maize: A study of bone histomorphometry and composition in young baboons

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FGF23 is elevated in Gambian children with rickets

scientific article

Factors influencing the vitamin D status of 10-year-old urban South African children

scientific article

Follow-up study of Gambian children with rickets-like bone deformities and elevated plasma FGF23: possible aetiological factors

scientific article

Fracture rates in urban South African children of different ethnic origins: the Birth to Twenty cohort.

scientific article

Genetic factors influencing bone mineral content in a black South African population ⬇️

scientific article published on 09 March 2013

Global Consensus Recommendations on Prevention and Management of Nutritional Rickets

scientific article

Global Consensus Recommendations on Prevention and Management of Nutritional Rickets

scientific article published on 8 January 2016

Growth failure after recurrent fever in young guinea pigs.

scientific article published on February 2007

Has the prevalence of stunting in South African children changed in 40 years? A systematic review

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Heterogeneity of fracture pathogenesis in urban South African children: the birth to twenty cohort

scientific article

Histomorphometry of iliac crest bone in 346 normal black and white South African adults

scientific article

How should we manage vitamin D deficiency rickets?

scientific article published in April 2014

How well do waist circumference and body mass index reflect body composition in pre-pubertal children?

scientific article

Hypophosphatemic rickets: unraveling the role of FGF23.

scientific article published on 22 September 2012

Immunohistochemical localization of calbindins (28K and 9K) in the tissues of the baboon Papio ursinus

scientific article published in December 1990

Implications of adopting the WHO 2006 Child Growth Standards: case study from urban South Africa, the Birth to Twenty cohort

scientific article published on January 2009

Improved management of patients with osteoporosis ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2012

In urban South Africa, 16 year old adolescents experience greater health equality than children

scientific article published on 06 June 2013

Induction of bone resorption by parathyroid hormone in congenital malignant osteopetrosis

scientific article published on 01 January 1981

Infant programming of bone size and bone mass in 10-year-old black and white South African children

scientific article

International child health: 10 years of democracy in South Africa; the challenges facing children today

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Investigation into longitudinal dietary behaviours and household socio-economic indicators and their association with BMI Z-score and fat mass in South African adolescents: the Birth to Twenty (Bt20) cohort

scientific article published on 17 July 2012

Is puberty starting earlier in urban South Africa?

scientific article

Lack of Degeneration of Penicillin in Urine during Storage of Specimens for up to Twelve Weeks

scientific article published on 01 August 1996

Life History theory hypotheses on child growth: Potential implications for short and long-term child growth, development and health

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Maternal vitamin D status: implications for the development of infantile nutritional rickets

scientific article published on June 2010

Maternal vitamin D status: implications for the development of infantile nutritional rickets

scientific article

Maternal vitamin D supplementation to improve the vitamin D status of breast-fed infants: a randomized controlled trial.

scientific article published on December 2013

Maternal-infant vitamin D relationships during breast-feeding.

scientific article published on October 1982

Metacarpal Growth During Adolescence in a Longitudinal South African Cohort.

scientific article

Novel SLC34A3 mutation causing hereditary hypophosphataemic rickets with hypercalciuria in a Gambian family

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Nutrient patterns and their association with socio-demographic, lifestyle factors and obesity risk in rural South African adolescents

scientific article published on 12 May 2015

Nutritional Rickets

Nutritional Rickets

Nutritional Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency

Nutritional rickets around the world: an update

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Nutritional rickets around the world: causes and future directions.

scientific article

Nutritional rickets in ichthyosis and response to calcipotriene

scientific article

Nutritional status and HIV in rural South African children ⬇️

scientific article published on March 25, 2011

Nutritional status of Malawian adults on antiretroviral therapy 1 year after supplementary feeding in the first 3 months of therapy.

scientific article published on 22 June 2009

Optimal Dose of Calcium for Treatment of Nutritional Rickets: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

scientific article

Optimizing Peak Bone Mass

Pediatric vitamin D and calcium nutrition in developing countries

scientific article published on 06 July 2008

Perinatal statistics – some good news

Pharmacokinetics of daily versus monthly vitamin D3 supplementation in non-lactating women.

scientific article

Physical activity and sedentary behavior among adolescents in rural South Africa: levels, patterns and correlates

scientific article

Portacaval shunt in four patients with homozygous hypercholesterolaemia ⬇️

scientific article published in April 1975

Postnatal growth velocity and overweight in early adolescents: a comparison of rural and urban African boys and girls.

scientific article

Predictors of adolescent weight status and central obesity in rural South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on February 28, 2011

Preface

Prevalence of elevated blood lead levels in nigerian children

scholarly article published June 2000

Prevalence of rickets-like bone deformities in rural Gambian children

scientific article published on 12 April 2015

Prevention and consequences of vitamin D deficiency in pregnant and lactating women and children: A symposium to prioritise vitamin D on the global agenda

scientific article published on 10 November 2015

Prevention of nutritional rickets in Nigerian children with dietary calcium supplementation

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Race, Ethnicity, and Osteoporosis

Rapid infant weight gain and advanced skeletal maturation in childhood

scientific article

Renal dysfunction, rod-cone dystrophy, and sensorineural hearing loss caused by a mutation in RRM2B

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Reply

Rickets

Rickets

scientific article published on 19 April 2002

Rickets and vitamin D deficiency in children and adolescents

scientific article

Rickets in children of rural origin in South Africa: Is low dietary calcium a factor? ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 1978

Rickets: vitamin D and calcium deficiency.

scientific article published in April 2007

Sanitation and diarrhoea in infancy and CRP level at 18 years: the birth-to-twenty plus cohort

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Screening for nutritional rickets in a community

scientific article published on 10 September 2015

Seasonal variation in serum 25-hydroxycholecalciferol concentrations in elderly South African patients with fractures of femoral neck ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1978

Secular trends in skeletal maturity in South Africa: 1962-2001.

scientific article

Serum osteocalcin has limited usefulness as a diagnostic marker for rickets

scientific article published on 01 October 2000

Stunting at 2 years in relation to body composition at 9 years in African urban children

scientific article published on January 2005

The Effect of Feeding Four Different Formulae on Stool Weights in Prolonged Dehydrating Infantile Gastroenteritis ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1988

The Skeletal System

The discriminative value of C-reactive protein levels in distinguishing between community-acquired bacteraemic and respiratory virus-associated lower respiratory tract infections in HIV-1-infected and -uninfected children

scientific article published in September 2002

The effect of calcium supplementation on blood lead levels in Nigerian children.

scientific article

The effect of differing dietary calcium and phosphorus contents on mineral metabolism and bone histomorphometry in young vitamin D-replete baboons

scientific article published on 01 December 1984

The effect of nutritional rickets on bone mineral density.

scientific article published on 25 July 2014

The effect of topical calcipotriol or zinc on tuberculin skin tests in hospitalised South African children

scientific article published on April 2014

The prevalence of malnutrition in children admitted to a general paediatric ward at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital: A cross-sectional survey

scholarly article by Janine Brink et al published 15 August 2014 in SAJCH : the South African journal of child health

The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children

scientific article

The relationship of maternal bone density with nutritional rickets in Nigerian children

scientific article published on 23 January 2017

The role of vitamin D in paediatric bone health

scientific article published on August 2011

The usefulness of clinical features to identify active rickets

scientific article

Vertical HIV transmission in South Africa: translating research into policy and practice

scientific article published on March 2002

Vitamin D Deficiency and Nutritional Rickets in Children

Vitamin D Deficiency and Nutritional Rickets in Children

article published in 2005

Vitamin D Status Is Not Associated with Cognitive or Motor Function in Pre-School Ugandan Children

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Vitamin D Status in Botswana Children Under 2 Years Old With and Without Active Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Vitamin D and Rickets Beyond America

scientific article published on 01 December 2008

Vitamin D and calcium status in urban children attending an ambulatory clinic service in the United Arab Emirates

scientific article

Vitamin D and its Role in the Management and Prevention of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Infants and Young Children

scientific article

Vitamin D dependency: Replacement therapy with calcitriol

scientific article published on 01 July 1981

Vitamin D metabolism in a frugivorous nocturnal mammal, the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus).

scientific article published in August 2003

Vitamin D receptors in a naturally vitamin D-deficient subterranean mammal, the naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber): biochemical characterization

scientific article published in June 1993

Vitamin D status in HIV-infected patients with and without tuberculosis: a pilot study

scientific article

Vitamin D treatment in calcium-deficiency rickets: a randomised controlled trial

scientific article

Vitamin D3 intoxication in naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) leads to hypercalcaemia and increased calcium deposition in teeth with evidence of abnormal skin calcification

scientific article published on July 1995

What's new in hypophosphataemic rickets?

scientific article published on 24 January 2008

X-linked hypophosphataemia in South Africa.

scientific article published in June 2004

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