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J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol
; 219: 106070, 2022 05.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-35143980
ABSTRACT
Vitamin D deficiency has been considered to be the cause of nutritional rickets for most of the past century. During the past two decades, however, it has become clear that nutritional rickets may be caused by vitamin D deficiency or by dietary insufficiency of calcium. The combined deficiencies of calcium and vitamin D interact, and several other factors are also relevant in the pathogenesis of nutritional rickets.