however , experience with long-term total parenteral nutrition in preterm infants , awareness of the acute and life-threatening effects of body phosphate depletion , and an unmeasured endogenous enteric calcium secretion all suggest that a ca/p ratio of approximately 3.0 provides a safer compromise between the acute and serious complications of phosphate deficiency and the chronic problems of fractures and rickets due to calcium deficiency .
C0006675
calcium
C0006711
ca/p