Establishing the Prevalence of Osteomalacia in Arab Adolescents Using Biochemical Markers of Bone Health.

ABSTRACT: Nutrition-acquired osteomalacia is a bone mineralization disorder associated with dietary calcium and/or solar vitamin D deficiency, risk factors considered common in the Middle Eastern region. Establishing less invasive, cheap, and widely available diagnostic markers for this underdiagnosed entity is essential, in particular for screening in high-risk groups. This study assessed the prevalence of biochemical osteomalacia in Arab adolescents. In this cross-sectional study performed between September 2019 and March 2021, adolescents aged 12-17 years from 60 different secondary and preparatory year schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were included. Anthropometrics and fasting blood samples were collected. Biochemical osteomalacia was defined as any two of the following four serum markers of hypo

SUBMITTER: Al-Daghri NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9784134 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature