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ReviewNutrients2016

"English Disease": Historical Notes on Rickets, the Bone-Lung Link and Child Neglect Issues.

Mingyong Zhang, Fan Shen, Anna Petryk, Jingfeng Tang, Xingzhen Chen, Consolato Sergi

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Review in Nutrients, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Mingyong ZhangDepartment of Orthopedics, Tianyou Hospital, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430064, China. zhangmingyong-08@163.com.
Fan ShenDepartment of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2B7, Canada. fshen@ualberta.ca.
Anna PetrykComprehensive Pediatric Bone Health Program, Div. Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. petry005@umn.edu.
Jingfeng TangMembrane Protein Disease and Cancer Research Centre, Provincial Innovation Center, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China. jingfeng@whu.edu.cn.
Xingzhen ChenMembrane Protein Disease and Cancer Research Centre, Provincial Innovation Center, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, China. xzchen@ualberta.ca.
Consolato SergiDepartment of Orthopedics, Tianyou Hospital, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430064, China. sergi@ualberta.ca.
University of Alberta · CAHubei University of Technology · CNUniversity of Minnesota · USWuhan University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nutritional or classical rickets (here labeled as "rickets") is a worldwide disease involving mostly infants and young children having inadequate sunlight exposure, often associated with a low dietary intake of Vitamin D. Rickets targets all layers of society independently of economic status with historical information spanning more than two millennia. Vitamin D is critical for the absorption of calcium and prevention of rickets in children as well as osteomalacia in adults. The initial and misleading paradigm of the 19th and 20th centuries that rickets may have been the consequence of infection has been, indeed, reversed following the identification of the Vitamin D molecule's important role in the function of the immune system. Although traditionally considered limited to osteopathology, Vitamin D deficiency is now known to be linked to infection, inflammation, and carcinogenesis. In this review, we consider the key historical (Whistler, pre-Whistler and post-Whistler descriptors) and social facts around rickets; highlight the osteo-pathological features of rickets and the pathology of the upper and lower respiratory tract, stressing the fact that lungs remain the main secondary organ affected by Vitamin D deficiency; and emphasize the public health role in identifying the cases of child neglect or abuse based on the evaluation of the costochondral region.

Indexed as

ChildChild AbuseHistory, 19th CenturyHistory, 20th CenturyHumansLung DiseasesRicketshistologyhistorypublic healthricketsVitamin D

Identifiers

PMID27854286
PMCPMC5133108
OpenAlexW2551679361

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