Vitamin D deficiency rickets

2002 - 2004 - Concluded

Leanne Ward, MD

Co-investigators: Stanley Zlotkin, MD; Moyez Ladhani, MD

Study results can be found in

CPSP 2004 Results

One-time surveys

• Vitamin D deficiency rickets (2015)

CPS News

• Vitamin D-deficiency rickets still a problem: CPSP data (2007)

CPSP Highlights

• The CPSP: An active surveillance program protecting and promoting the health of Canadian children

  Paediatr Child Health 2016;21(5):263-4

• Rickets: A re-emerging public health problem in Canada?

  Paediatr Child Health 2008;13(1):73

• The multiple facets of bone diseases

  Paediatr Child Health 2004;9(2):80

• CPSP 2002 Results: What have we learned?

  Paediatr Child Health 2003;8(7):447

• A risk of northern climate!

  Paediatr Child Health 2002;7(10):680

Published papers

• Vitamin D-deficiency rickets among children in Canada

  Ward LM, Gaboury I, Ladhani M, Zlotkin S. CMAJ 2007;177(7):161-6 

  DOI:10.1503/cmaj.061377

Presentations

• Vitamin D deficiency in rickets (VDDR) among children living in Canada: A new look at an old disease

  Ward LM. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Paediatric Society, Montreal, in June 2004

• Risk factors for vitamin D deficiency rickets among children living in Canada: Results of an incidence study through the Canadian Pediatric Surveillance Program

  Ward LM, Gaboury I, Ladhani M, Zlotkin S. Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism’s Annual Meeting, Ottawa, in October 2003