PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | rickets |
| Phenotype | C0024523|malabsorption |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22254068 | For a brief period, the distinction between calcium deficiency and vitamin d deficiency was the accepted paradigm but when it was shown in the 1920’s that rickets was associated with malabsorption of calcium [6], it came to be thought that malabsorption of calcium was the cause of the disease and the pathogenesis of osteoporosis was returned to limbo. |
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