Spotting nutritional vitamin D deficiency in children
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Spotting nutritional vitamin D deficiency in children

Erin Dean Health writer

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Nutritional vitamin D deficiency can lead to rickets, impaired growth, muscle weakness, cardiomyopathy and seizures in children.

Nursing Children and Young People. 31, 2, 10-10. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.31.2.10.s8

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