Prevalence of rickets-like bone deformities in rural Gambian children.

In linear models, wrist circumference was a weakly significant predictor of clinically-confirmed bone deformity after age and sex adjustment (deformity versus normal phenotype: wrist circumference = 3.0 SE 1.5 mm p = 0.05) wrist width was not (0.7 mm SE 0.5 mm p = 0.2) Discussion Rickets is a major public health problem, especially in developing countries and in some ethnic groups living in more affluent countries [2] .

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