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Maternal vitamin D deficiency, refractory neonatal hypocalcaemia, and nutritional rickets
  1. S D Shenoy1,
  2. P Swift1,
  3. D Cody1,
  4. J Iqbal2
  1. 1Children’s Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK
  2. 2Department of Chemical Pathology, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK
  1. Correspondence to:
    Dr D Cody
    Department of Paediatrics, Children’s Hospital, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK; declan.codyuhl-tr.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.065268

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    We read with interest the articles by Allgrove1 and Ladhani and colleagues2 which highlighted the re-emergence of vitamin D deficiency and nutritional rickets as a major public health problem in the UK, especially in the “at risk” ethnic minority groups.

    We would like to present our experience from a single centre of maternal vitamin D deficiency, neonatal hypocalcaemia, and nutritional rickets. Leicester City has an estimated proportion of 28% South Asians (Census 2001) and an increasing number of other ethnic groups, including an estimated recently arrived 10 000 …

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    • Competing interests: none declared