Osteoporosis and osteomalacia should always be distinguished from one another, since they require completely different therapeutic strategies. For this reason, the term that should be used in ...

Severe vitamin D deficiency causes ‘osteomalacia’, not osteoporosis, which is chronic bone pain and often muscle weakness.

When you suffer from Vitamin D deficiency, it can lead to bone disorders such as rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. It also increases the risk of osteoporosis. Therefore it is ...

“Insufficiency of vitamin D is one of the major causes of osteomalacia (soft bones) and osteoporosis (fragile bones) both here and across the world,” added Dr Mustafa Al Izzi, Head of the ...