Vitamin D has many functions throughout the body. While severe deficiency directly leads to poor bone mineralization, resulting in rickets and osteomalacia, current research suggests that a deficit in vitamin D may be involved in the etiology of many disorders, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory infection, diabetes, infectious disease, and some cancers. Given what you know about the characteristics of a deficiency disease, which of the following would be considered a deficiency disease resulting from inadequate levels of vitamin D? A. Osteomalacia
B. Rickets
C. Cardiovascular disease
D. Fatty liver
E. Type 2 diabetes

Osteomalacia and rickets

Explanation:

Osteomalacia and rickets are very characteristic pathologies due to vitamin D deficiency. Both are the same, but the difference between them is age and the morbidity they generate, rickets is in children, therefore the sequelae are much worse because they drag these bone disorders throughout his life, causing his morbidity to be high.

Meanwhile, osteomalacia is in adults, many adults because they cannot sunbathe, find themselves facing sedentary lives or even living in few areas with the sun, are affected by this pathology.

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