A child presents with bone deficiency and a bowlegged appearance. This assessment data supports a diagnosis of:
a) Rickets
b) Osteoporosis
c) Osteomalacia
d) Paget disease
Answer:
a) Rickets
Explanation:
Rickets occurs at the early stage of childhood due to inadequate vitamin D.
Vitamin D provides the body with higher absorption rate of calcium and phosphorus, inadequate intake of Vitamin D results into low calcium and phosphorus levels in the bones, as a result, rickets sets in.
Rickets is a disarrangement of impaired mineralization of cartilaginous growth plates in children. It can also result from lack of exposure to sunlight.
Answer:
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The transient condition that is being described above is
sports anemia. This occurs when an individual is into aerobic exercise that
will likely cause the individual to have his or her red blood cells to be
diluted in which happens because of the plasma volume of the individual has
been expanded.
A nucleic acid that carries the genetic information in cells and some viruses,
consisting of two long chains of nucleotides twisted into a double helix and
joined by hydrogen bonds between the complementary bases adenine and thymine or cytosine and guanine.