Apparent efficacy of food-based calcium supplementation in preventing rickets in Bangladesh
To determine whether increased Ca intakes can prevent rickets in a susceptible group of children living in a rickets-endemic area of Bangladesh, we conducted...
Rickets in Bangladeshi children: a small focus or a widespread problem ?
A survey in 1997 in Chakaria sub-district near Cox’s Bazar in south-east Bangladesh found that 4% of children aged 1 to 15 years had...
Rapid assessment of the prevalence of lower limb clinical rickets in Bangladesh
This study attempted to measure the prevalence of lower limb clinical rickets using a rapid assessment methodology in Cox's Bazaar, a coastal district of...
Rickets in Bangladesh
Rickets was discovered in Bangladesh in 1991 after the cyclone when SARPV was there to provide service to the severely injured and disabled people....
Rickets: An Overview and Future Directions, with Special Reference to Bangladesh
Rickets has emerged as a public-health problem in Bangladesh during the past two decades, with up to 8% of children clinically affected in some...
National Rickets survey in Bangladesh
Rickets is a disease that results in softening of bones in children potentially leading to fractures and deformity and it is among the most...
