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Rickets - MedlinePlus
Rickets is a disorder caused by a lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. It leads to softening and weakening of the bones.
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000344.htm
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Rickets Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatments - Healthline
Rickets is a skeletal disorder that results from a lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. These nutrients are important for the development of strong, healthy bones. People with rickets can have weak and soft bones, stunted growth, and, in severe cases, skeletal deformities.
http://www.healthline.com/health/rickets#Overview1
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Rickets Overview - Mayo Clinic
Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children, usually because of an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rickets/home/ovc-20200467
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Rickets -Mayo Clinic
Rickets - Comprehensive overview covers causes, risk factors, treatment, prevention of bone weakening in children.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/rickets/basics/definition/con-20027091
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Rickets -MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Vitamin D helps the body control calcium and phosphate levels. If the blood levels of these minerals become too low, the body may produce hormones that cause calcium and phosphate to be released from the bones. This leads to weak and soft bones.
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000344.htm
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Rickets -Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Wikipedia's information about Rickets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets
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Rickets: Background, Pathophysiology, Epidemiology -Medscape
Rickets is a disease of growing bone that is unique to children and adolescents. It is caused by a failure of osteoid to calcify in a growing person.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/985510-overview
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Rickets: Learn the Symptoms and Treatments
Rickets is caused by a deficiency of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. Get additional facts about symptoms, treatment, causes, history, diagnosis, prognosis, and prevention.
http://www.medicinenet.com/rickets/article.htm
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Rickets: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatments -Healthline
Rickets is a disorder that can develop due to a lack of vitamin D, calcium, or phosphate. Learn about the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of rickets.
http://www.healthline.com/health/rickets
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Rickets -NHS Choices
Rickets is a condition that affects bone development in children. It causes the bones to become soft and weak, which can lead to bone deformities.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/rickets/Pages/Introduction.aspx
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Rickets, Vitamin D Deficiency -WebMD
Important It is possible that the main title of the report Rickets, Vitamin D Deficiency is not the name you expected.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/rickets-vitamin-d-deficiency
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Rickets-OrthoInfo -AAOS
Rickets is a bone disease in children that causes weak bones, bowed legs, and other bone deformities. Children with rickets do not get enough calcium, phosphorus, or Vitamin D -- all of which are important for healthy growing bones.
http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00577
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Rickets -Radiopaedia
Rickets, less commonly known as rachitis, essentially refers to osteomalacia in the paediatric population that occurs prior to fusion of the growth plate.EpidemiologyRickets is seen in a number of distinct populations.
http://radiopaedia.org/articles/rickets
