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Arch Dis Child 91:606-607 doi:10.1136/adc.2006.095075
  • Short report

Incidence of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency

  1. A L Callaghan1,
  2. R J D Moy2,
  3. I W Booth2,
  4. G Debelle3,
  5. N J Shaw3
  1. 1Birmingham Specialist Community Health NHS Trust, Birmingham, UK
  2. 2Institute of Child Health, University of Birmingham
  3. 3Birmingham Children’s Hospital
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr N J Shaw
    Department of Endocrinology, Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; nick.shaw{at}bch.nhs.uk
  • Accepted 24 March 2006
  • Published Online First 4 April 2006

Abstract

A survey of West Midlands paediatricians in 2001 identified 24 cases of symptomatic vitamin D deficiency in children less than 5 years of age. The overall incidence was 7.5 per 100 000 children per year with notable differences in incidence per ethnic group.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests: none declared

  • Published Online First 4 April 2006