根据地学有关部门的分析研究,我省大骨节病某些病区,农田土壤中所含植物可利用的活性锰比非病区为低,病区的小麦和玉米的含锰量亦低于非病区,病区饮水中的含锰量亦有偏低的报告。在人类疾患中,缺锰作为病因者还很少研究报导。对动物缺锰则研究较多。一般动物缺锰时的表现都颇相似,其中一个方面就是引起骨骼的异常。如鸟禽类的骨粗短病(Perosis)和营养性软骨营养不良症(Nutritional chondrodystrophy) According to the analysis of geo-related departments, some wards of KBD in our province, active manganese in plants contained in farmland soil is lower than non-ward, manganese content in ward and wheat is also lower than non-non- Ward, ward drinking water in the manganese content is also low report. In human disease, manganese deficiency as the cause is still rarely reported. The lack of manganese animal studies are more. The general performance of animals when the lack of manganese are quite similar, one aspect is the cause of skeletal abnormalities. Such as birds and poultries (Perosis) and nutritional cartilage dystrophy (Nutritional chondrodystrophy)