Rickets and Osteomalacia in the Glasgow Pakistani Community, 1961-71

Ford, James M.; Colhoun, E. M.; McIntosh, W. B.; Dunnigan, M. G.

doi:10.1136/bmj.2.5815.677

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“…Dietary assessment of vitamin D showed a low intake in most subjects, which agrees with previous reports from Glasgow (Dunnigan and Smith, 1965;Ford et al, 1972a), Birmingham (Watney et al, (Holmes et al, 1973), and London (Wills et ai., 1972;Dent et al, 1973). A low calcium intake in the Asian women was not necessarily associated with the lowest vitamin D intakes.…”

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Plasma Calcium Levels in Pregnant Asian Women

1976

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Plasma calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, total protein, and albumin were measured during pregnancy in a group of Asian women living in the south of England and in a control group. The Asian women had slightly lower mean plasma calcium concentrations than the control group. Exposure of Asian women to sunshine appeared to be low, and it was inferred that they probably had little endogenous synthesis of cholecalciferol as a result. Both Asian and control subjects ingested similarly low amounts of vitamin D. The Asian women consumed greater amounts of phytate and vegetable fibres than the controls, and it is suggested that these substances may reduce absorption of insoluble lipids (including cholecalciferol) and calcium in a setting where the dietary intake and endogenous synthesis of vitamin D are already borderline for the subject's requirements.

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Plasma Calcium Levels in Pregnant Asian Women

1976

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“…Likewise, in the USA, clinical rickets is common in children who are adopted from the former Soviet Union [35]. Vitamin D deficiency in Asians, whose ethnic origin is from India, Pakistan or Bangladesh, living in the UK was first reported nearly 30 years ago [36,37]. Programs to improve life and social conditions, as well as public health initiatives to provide free vitamin D supplements, have led to declines in the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in these ethnic groups [38].…”

Section: Nutritional Rickets In Developed Countries: Racial and Ethnimentioning

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Consensus Development for the Supplementation of Vitamin D in Childhood and Adolescence

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“…In spite of this fact, rickets has been reported in various tropical and subtro pical countries [7][8][9], as well as in the slums of the big cities of Europe and North America due to the lack of exposure to sunlight. For tification of milk with vitamin D and im provement of housing conditions led to the disappearance of rickets in Western Europe [10], but it reappeared in these countries amongst the immigrants and also in indige nous populations [11][12][13].…”

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Low 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Normal Serum Calcium Concentrations in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Region

Sedrani¹

1984

Ann Nutr Metab

122

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Serum levels of the circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and calcium were measured in 104 Saudis, 44 Jordanians, 17 Egyptians and 10 other subjects aged between 18 and 23 years. All subjects were male university students living in Riyadh for more than 2 years. 25-Hydroxyvitamin D levels were (mean ± SD) 12.8 ± 6.3, 11.0 ± 5.8, 11.9 ± 6.9 and 11.9 ± 5.0 ng/ml, respectively. The percentages of subjects with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels below 10 ng/ml were 35, 45, 53 and 50% for normal Saudis, Jordanians, Egyptians and others, respectively. All subjects had normal serum calcium concentrations. There was no correlation between 25-hydroxyvitamin D and serum calcium levels in the subjects investigated. This study indicates a tendency for a low vitamin D status among residents of Saudi Arabia, in spite of abundant sunlight all the year round.

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Rickets and Osteomalacia in the Glasgow Pakistani Community, 1961-71

Cited by 92 publications

References 14 publications

Plasma Calcium Levels in Pregnant Asian Women

Plasma Calcium Levels in Pregnant Asian Women

Consensus Development for the Supplementation of Vitamin D in Childhood and Adolescence

Low 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Normal Serum Calcium Concentrations in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh Region

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