TY - JOUR T1 - The prevalence of rickets among non-Caucasian children JF - Archives of Disease in Childhood JO - Arch Dis Child SP - 263 LP - 264 DO - 10.1136/adc.87.3.263-a VL - 87 IS - 3 AU - S Ashraf AU - M Z Mughal Y1 - 2002/09/01 UR - http://adc.bmj.com/content/87/3/263.2.abstract N2 - We welcome the timely review by Shaw and Pal1 on the continuing problem of vitamin D deficiency among South East Asians living in the UK. Since our report in 1999,2 we have continued to see 8–10 non-white toddlers with florid vitamin D deficiency rickets per year, at our inner city general paediatric unit. A recent national survey showed that 20–34% of South East Asian children had biochemical evidence of vitamin D deficiency.3 However, there is no information on the prevalence of clinical rickets among non-Caucasian children in the UK.We opportunistically studied 6–36 month old children from ethnic minority backgrounds who were brought to a child health clinic in Central Manchester between 30 May 2001 and 12 July 200 for immunisations, weight checks, hearing tests, … ER -