ROLE OF CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D IN NUTRITIONAL RICKETS AND ITS MANAGEMENT
Phase 3
Completed
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2010/091/000448
- Lead Sponsor
- IL, NI
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
Hundred consecutive children aged six months to five years with clinical and radiological features of nutritional rickets were recruited from the outpatient department of a tertiary care teaching hospital in North India. Sixty eight healthy, age and sex matched children with no features of rickets and no disease likely to affect vitamin D or calcium metabolism, constituted the control group.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Non-nutritional etiology (renal or hepatic disease, antiepileptic drug intake or any chronic illness)
2. Patients presenting with hypocalcemic seizures
3. History of consuming calcium or vitamin D supplements in the preceding six months
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method