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A condition of rickets is associated with a deficiency in which vitamin?
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Vitamin D
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What is the cause of anemia night blindness and rickets?
Anaemia is a deficiency of iron, night blindness is a deficiency if vitamin A and rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D.
Why do you get rickets?
It is from a Vitamin D deficiency.
Do microbes cause rickets?
Rickets is not a microbe. Rickets is a disease caused by the deficiency of Vitamin D, which is an essential vitamin (that is it is not produced by the body). Body gets vitamin D when sunlight falls on the skin.
What vitamin deficiencey can cause rickets?
Scurvy Kwashiorkor Marasmus Beriberi Rickets Pernicious anemia Iron Deficiency Zinc Deficiency Magnesium Deficiency
What disease is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin D?
Rickets.... ;)
What happens if you don't realize you have vitamin d deficiency?
You could get a disease called rickets if you have a Vitamin D deficiency.
Irregular growth and teeth?
Vitamin D deficiency. Rickets.
Why do animals get rickets?
Rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D. So they get it from not having enough vitamin D in their diet. It could also be a deficiency in phosphorus, calcium or simply that the animal is not getting enough sunlight.
Rickets in children is caused by?
A severe or prolonged deficiency of Vitamin D
Is rickets a vitamin d deficiency?
Rickets are symptom of vitamin D deficiency. It's a basically softening of bones usually in children due to lack of vitamin D, calcium or phosphorus. As such bones become more prone to malformity and fractures. Rickets are most common disease in childhood age.
How is sunlight related to vitamin D deficiency?
Vitamin D deficiency, as well as rickets and osteomalacia, tends to occur in persons who do not get enough sunlight
Is rickets caused by microbes?
No, it is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin C- like scurvy is.
