Osteomalacia syndrome - a social-economic role and clinical diagnostic aspects

Purpose. To describe the dynamics of paying scientific medical community’ attention to the problem of osteomalacia on the basis of the quantitative analysis of bibliographic search in MEDLINE database, as well as on selective studying the publication content. Material and Мethods. The annual quantitative dynamics of the publications for the period of 1960-2012 analyzed using the method of statistical mathematical modeling. For this purpose dynamic series were formed containing the data about the number of annual publications which approximated by forth-order polynomial spline obtaining a trend model with approximation parameters p=0.1 (P