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What disease in children called rickets is known as in adults?
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osteomalacia
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What bone disease is called by the lack of calcium in the diet?
Rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults.
What is the disease in children called rickets known as?
Ostomalacia
What disease was once called the English Disease?
Rickets
What is the name of the Musculoskeletal disease causes by vitamin D defisciency?
The musculoskeletal disease caused by vitamin D deficiency is called osteomalacia in adults and rickets in children. These conditions weaken bones, leading to symptoms like bone pain, muscle weakness, and bone deformities. Adequate vitamin D intake is essential for maintaining healthy bones and preventing these diseases.
A vitamin D deficiency can cause this abnormal metabolic bone disease?
RICKETS is a disorder caused y a lack of vitamin D,calcium,or phosphate.
Does deficiency of vitamin D causes osteoarthritis?
No. It can cause osteopenia (little+bone) or osteoporosis (holes+bone). In growing children it can cause the disease called Rickets.
How is a child affected by poor nutrition?
Children can suffer from a variety of diseases as a result of poor nutition; for example, a deficiency of vitamin D leads to a bone disease called rickets; lack of vitamin A impairs vision (or can even cause blindness), lack of vitamin C causes scurvy, etc. Children who suffer from poor nutrition will not grow up to be healthy adults.
What is the disease caused by vitamin called osteomalacia?
It's a disease caused by lack of vitamin D that causes weakening/softening of bones.
Which condition is known as adult rickets?
The term "rickets" is used almost exclusively to refer to a deficiency disease in children caused by a shortage of vitamin D, which causes the bones to develope abnormally. This is because the body cannot properly metabolize calcium without sufficient vitamin D. Adults might also have vitamin D deficiencies and calcium absorption problems, but the bones are already formed, and rickets refers to the formative years - that is, childhood. A person using the term "adult rickets" is probably stretching the meaning for lack of a better term.
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.
How can you detect vitamin d deficiency?
Since vitamin D is necessary for bone development and growth, some sort of problems will occur in the bones. In children is causes something called rickets and in adults it will cause thin and/or weak bones. These are called osteopenia (little bone) and osteoporosis (bone with holes).
What is the meaning of Rickets?
A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
