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**Abstract __Aim__**: To assess the risk factors for nutritional rickets among children in Kuwait. **__Methods__**: One hundred and three children with rickets and 102 control children matched for age and socioethnic characteristics were recruited over a 2 year period (January 1995 to January 1997) in Al‐Adan Hospital in Kuwait. Diagnosis was made on clinical, radiologic and biochemical parameters. A specially designed questionnaire was administered by one of the investigators to both mothers of patients and mothers of control subjects to assess the role of social, nutritional and other related factors in the pathogenesis of nutritional rickets. Biochemical investigations included estimation of hemoglobin, serum calcium, serum phosphorus, serum alkaline phosphatase and serum 25‐hydroxy vitamin D. **__Results__**: The mean birthweights of rickets patients and control subjects were 3.20~0.46 and 3.19~0.45 kg, respectively. At the time of diagnosis, bodyweights of the patients and controls were 9.36~1.50 and 10.15~2.10 kg, respectively. Heights at the time of diagnosis were 73.58 and 77.24 cm for the patients and the controls, respectively. Mean hemoglobin, serum calcium and serum pho
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- Author
- Abdul Majid Molla; Mona H Badawi; Suhad Al‐Yaish; Prem Sharma; Randa Salah El‐Salam
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 1328-8067)
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)