Vitamin D deficiency

摘要

I read the report on Vitamin D deficiency1 with interest. In my practice in Hounslow we have a list size of 3700 with a large Somali population. We have been testing for Vitamin D deficiency for 2 years in any patient in an at-risk group who presents with bone or joint pain or non-specific malaise. We started to do this because we picked up several cases of young Somali women presenting with symptoms who were discovered to have frank osteomalacia and two children with rickets.