The study set the basis for assessing the growth, development and nutrition in pre-school children in eastern Turkey and it can be used as a reference study in monitoring growth and development.
ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the growth reference value of children in our province and to compare these values with current values of the USA and other local values of our country.
Ninety-one infants with rickets presented to hospital with hypocalcaemia.
Vitamin D deficiency should be considered in infants presenting
with hypocalcaemic convulsion.
ABSTRACT
Aim: Hypocalcaemia evaluation of the clinical, biochemical and radiological features of 91 infants with rickets who presented as hypocalcaemic convulsions.
Subjects andMethods: Ninety-one hypocalcaemic infants who were brought to hospital with convulsion and diag-nosed with rickets related to vitamin D deficiency according to their clinical, biochemical and radio-logical features were retrospectively reviewed.