ROLE OF CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D IN NUTRITIONAL RICKETS AND ITS MANAGEMENT

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 3Phase 4

Study type

Interventional

Source

CTRI

Registry ID

CTRI/2010/091/000448

Enrollment

Registered

2010-10-01

Start date

Unknown

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2021-11-24

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Conditions

None listed

Interventions

Intervention1: Calcium: 75 mg/kg per day Intervention2: Vitamin D: 6 lakh IU single intramuscular dose Intervention3: Combination of calcium and vitamin D: calcium at 75 mg/kg/day with single intramus

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Hundred consecutive children aged six months to five years with clinical and radiological features of nutritional rickets were recruited from the outpatient department of a tertiary care teaching hospital in North India. Sixty eight healthy, age and sex matched children with no features of rickets and no disease likely to affect vitamin D or calcium metabolism, constituted the control group.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Non-nutritional etiology (renal or hepatic disease, antiepileptic drug intake or any chronic illness) 2. Patients presenting with hypocalcemic seizures 3. History of consuming calcium or vitamin D supplements in the preceding six months

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Percentage of subjects showing complete radiological and biochemical evidence of healing of ricketsTimepoint:	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
NILTimepoint: NIL	—

Countries

India

Contacts

Public ContactVARUN

drvarunaggarwal@gmail.com011-27524268

Outcome results