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Air pollution study confirms concerns over childhood rickets
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A study in India has shown that young children living in areas of high air pollution are in danger of developing rickets.
Two groups of age matched infants and toddlers were compared for serum vitamin D metabolites, calcium, alkaline phosphatase (AP), and parathormone (PTH) concentrations. One group lived in a central location in Delhi and the other on the outskirts of the city, where air pollution is much lower.
Children from the city centre had significantly lower mean serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D)—an indictor of vitamin D status—than children from the outskirts (12.4 ng/ml v 27.1 ng/ml). Their mean serum AP and PTH concentrations were significantly higher, and the inverse relations between 25(OH)D and AP, PTH were also significant. Three children had serum total 25(OH)D low enough to indicate rickets, and nine more below adequate amounts. All children from the outskirts had adequate 25(OH)D. Mean haze score was significantly less
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