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Vitamin D Deficiency

Risk High prevalence of deficiency (much more than previously recognized). At risk: Dietary insufficiency, breastfed infants, inadequate sun exposure, elderly, nursing home residents, institutionalized, dark skinned individuals, obese, post gastric bypass, IBD. Genetically predisposed: Rickets, osteomalacia. Worry About Hypocalcemia; vitamin…

Kartagener Syndrome

Risk KS, first described in 1933, is part of a larger family of diseases classified as PCD. The triad of KS consists of bronchiectasis, chronic sinusitis, and situs inversus; it has an incidence estimated at 1:15,000–40,000 births. The disease is…

Diverticulosis

Risk More prevalent in developed countries; common in the UK and other parts of northern Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, but uncommon in southern Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and the Pacific Islands. Prevalence in developing…