“…Modern clinical research suggests that rickets can impact the age of onset of walking (Agarwal et al, 2009). Lethargy, muscular‐skeletal pain, altered weight‐bearing due to bone softening and postural alterations associated with rickets together with contemporary childcare practices may have influenced the skeletal response to the vitamin D deficiency in a variety of ways (e.g., Hess, 1930; Ives et al, 2022) and affected the changes in cortical bone structural integrity identified here. The significant causative variables that led to the development of widespread rickets in post‐medieval urban centres are not necessarily applicable to a wide range of other population groups, although expanding research is demonstrating evidence for this metabolic bone disease from a range of past contexts (e.g., Giuffra et al, 2015; Kennedy, 1984; Littleton, 1998; Mays et al, 2018; Ortner, 2003).…”