1. NUTRITIONAL OSTEOMALACIA IN IMMIGRANTS IN AN URBAN COMMUNITY
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W.T. Cooke and C.H.J. Swan
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Osteomalacia ,business.industry ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Immigration ,Physiology ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Urban community ,Endocrinology ,Internal medicine ,Vitamin D and neurology ,Medicine ,Alkaline phosphatase ,business ,Active metabolite ,media_common - Abstract
Between 1964 and 1970, twenty-five patients from Indian or Pakistani families presented with osteomalacia at a Birmingham hospital. Not every case could be explained by low dietary levels of vitamin D, and this, together with evidence of resistance to calciferol in six cases, suggests that some Asian immigrants may have a defect at some point in the conversion of vitamin D 2 to its physiologically active metabolite.
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- 1971
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