Adult Vitamin D deficiency causes Osteomalacia

Submitted by Yoel Natan (United States), Aug 3, 2007 at 14:58

Dr. Pipes has a nice article on banning burqas.
I notice that he mentions rickets, but it seems rickets may just be a childhood disease , and adults Vitamin D deficiency causes Osteomalacia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickets

Adult Vitamin D deficiency causes Osteomalacia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteomalacia

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