Rickets – 1 in 10,000 in Canada and UK, 1 in 2 in Russia and Mongolia

• A closer look at rickets and vitamin D deficiency in Manitoba: The tip of the iceberg Aug 2018
   Download the PDF from Vitamin D Life
• 1 in 2 Russian kids have rickets
• Turkey gave 400 IU vitamin D to needy infants and reduced Rickets by 60X - 2011
  • Perhaps Russia should learn from Turkey
• Rickets needs Vitamin D and Calcium - Global Consensus Jan 2016
• Rickets Market size of 24 billion dollars is growing fast (low vitamin D) – Aug 2018
• Sunshine can prevent rickets – Poland 1822
• Rickets in UK increased 4X in a decade - May 2015
• 1 in 18 kids in the Ancient Roman Empire had rickets (low Vitamin D) – Aug 2018
• Rickets in Japan increased 3 X recently, similar to increases in other countries – June 2017
• Rickets in Norway – 93 percent had darker skin (lower vitamin D) – May 2017
• Neonate Rickets was virtually always associated with very low maternal vitamin D – Dec 2014
• Mongolian women have the lowest levels of vitamin D in the world – Sept 2013 ~60%
• Nutritional rickets around the world: an update - 2016

PDF is available free at Sci-Hub   10.1080/20469047.2016.1248170
Nigeria 1 in 170; Gambia 1 in 70; Bangladesh 1 in 12

Overview of Rickets and vitamin D contains the following summary

Rate of rickets is usually < 0.1% of births, unless dark skin or breastfed
Rate of rickets has greatly increased with the drop in vitamin D levels during the past 40 years
400 IU can prevent/treat most rickets Turkey gave vitamin D to EVERY child and eliminated Rickets
A low serum level of vitamin D does not indicate rickets
Sometimes rickets is also associated with a poor vitamin D receptor
Giving enough Vitamin D to the mother PREVENTS Rickets
Rate of rickets in some countries varies from 10% to 70% (typically poor health overall)
Rickets has been more than doubling in many countries
Rickets is strongly associated with severe breathing problems (weak ribs)
Bowed legs is not the primary indication of rickets (3 other indications of rickets are seen more often)
Vitamin D and Rickets consensus took 80 years