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Ranges of prevalences of chest abnormalities were\u2014Harrison\u2019s sulcus, 0-5%, and pigeon chest, 0-2%. Prevalence of bowing increased with age. That of knock knee was little affected by age, but increased markedly with body mass. There was no age trend with prevalences of chest abnormalities.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Prevalences appeared unrelated to vitamin D intake. As to sunshine, the annual mean for the Transvaal is 8\u00b74 hr daily. Results from radiological, skin pigmentation, and biochemical studies were non-contributory. Since a primary deficiency of vitamin D is evidently not the causal factor, one explanation is that a secondary deficiency is involved, arising from an impairment in metabolic availability. Further, a proportion of leg abnormalities may be physiological variants; moreover, it cannot be excluded that unknown factors may bear, or share, in responsibility.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Elucidation may be forthcoming by investigating the interrelationship between vitamin D status and frequency of leg abnormalities during and after puberty; in addition, results of serial studies of prevalences of abnormalities from birth to post-adolescence would be illuminating.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1136\/pgmj.51.591.22","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,12,29]],"date-time":"2008-12-29T20:31:39Z","timestamp":1230582699000},"page":"22-29","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Prevalences of leg and chest abnormalities in four South African schoolchild populations with special reference to vitamin D status"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"51","author":[{"given":"Barbara D","family":"Richardson","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"South African Medical Research Council Human Biochemistry Research Unit, South African Institute for Medical Research , Johannesburg, South Africa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alexander R P","family":"Walker","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"South African Medical Research Council Human Biochemistry Research Unit, South African Institute for Medical Research , Johannesburg, South Africa"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1975,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","article-title":"Ames\/BMI Blood Analyser Technical","author":"COMPANY, A.M.E.S.","year":"1970","unstructured":"AMES COMPANY (1970) Ames\/BMI Blood Analyser Technical"},{"key":"ref_2","article-title":"Dietary study of 4365 Scottish infants-","author":"ARNEIL, G.C.","year":"1967","unstructured":"ARNEIL, G.C. 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