Vitamin-D Deficiency Rickets
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Vitamin D deficiency rickets is a bone disorder primarily affecting children, caused by insufficient vitamin D leading to impaired bone mineralization and skeletal deformities. It is a form of nutritional rickets, distinguished from other types by its underlying cause of inadequate vitamin D, which is essential for calcium and phosphate metabolism. The modern preferred term is nutritional rickets due to vitamin D deficiency.
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