Rickets is a condition that causes weak or soft bones in children, arising from either a dietary deficiency, most often of vitamin D, or from certain genetic causes. It produces symptoms such as bowed legs, stunted growth, bone pain, an enlarged forehead, and disturbed sleep, and complications can include bone deformities and fractures, muscle spasms, and an abnormally curved spine. The equivalent condition in adults, arising from the same underlying deficiency, is known as osteomalacia.
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ICD-10 ChapterIV: Endocrine, Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases 1 Communicable or Non-communicable Transmission Route First DescribedEarlier undated bone-deformation reports exist (Soranus of Ephesus, first-second century AD) and the word itself first appeared in print in 1634; 1645 is recorded here as the article's own credited year the condition was first defined as a specific medical condition. Causative Agent
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Rickets (vitamin D deficiency) is a foundational example of a vitamin deficiency disease in the history this discovery entity records.
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1. Wikipedia: ICD-10
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Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases
2. World Health Organization: Noncommunicable diseases (fact sheet)
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The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes.
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The main types of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (such as heart attacks and stroke), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma) and diabetes.
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Rickets was not defined as a specific medical condition until 1645, when an English physician Daniel Whistler gave the earliest known description of the disease.
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The condition can result from eating a diet without enough vitamin D, dark skin, too little sun exposure, exclusive breastfeeding without vitamin D supplementation, celiac disease, and certain genetic conditions.
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Temporary hemiepiphysiodesis or guided growth surgery has been used to treat angular deformities in children with diverse bone and joint disorders such as rickets, Blount's disease, osteochondrodysplasias, arthrogryposis multiplex congenita, idiopathic, trauma, and renal osteodystrophy among others.
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