Rickets rate resurging in East Bay

Oakland Tribune | August 23, 2006| | Copyright

Rickets -- a childhood bone disease associated with bow legs and the Industrial Age -- is resurging in the East Bay, according to a forthcoming study from Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland.

For six years, 59 cases of rickets were diagnosed among children as old as 2 years old, researchers found in a chart review of all patients seen at Children's Hospital Oakland, which has about 200,000 patient visits per year. Many cases were serious and one required surgery to correct malformed bones, the chart review reports.

Experts said the findings are the latest evidence of a ...

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