Preventing symptomatic vitamin D deficiency and rickets among Indigenous infants and children in Canada

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Official Canadian Paediatric Society document (2022) on “Preventing symptomatic vitamin D deficiency and rickets among Indigenous infants and children in Canada”. Vitamin D deficiency (VitDD) rickets and other manifestations of severe VitDD, such as cardiomyopathy and hypocalcemic seizures, continue to be diagnosed in Canada. Breastfed Indigenous infants, particularly those living in northern communities, are disproportionately impacted, although formula-fed infants are not exempt in cases where the mother’s vitamin D status is critically low. This statement deals with the pre.

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