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Chronic kidney treatment by Vitamin D lacks consensus: type, how much – Sept 2018

Native vitamin D in pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease.

Nefrologia. 2018 Sep 28. pii: S0211-6995(18)30123-1. doi: 10.1016/j.nefro.2018.07.004

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Kidney Intervention trials using Vitamin D:


Overview Kidney and vitamin D contains the following summary

  • FACT: Kidney is the primary way to activate vitamin D
  • FACT: When the Kidney has problems, there is less active vitamin D (Calcitriol) for the body
  • FACT: When the Kidney has problems, there is increased death due to many factors - many of which are associated with lack of Calcitriol
  • FACT: There are many on-going intervention clinical trials trying to determine how much of what kind of vitamin D is needed to treat the problem
  • FACT: One Randomized Controlled Trial has proven that Vitamin D treats CKD
  • FACT: Taking extra Vitamin D, in various forms, does not cause health problems - even if poor kidney
  • Suggestion: Increase vitamin D getting into body now - and increase co-factors so that the vitamin D can be better used
      Sun, UV lamp, Vitamin D supplement - probably > 5,000 IU,
    Calcitriol - which bypasses the need for the kidney to activate vitamin D
      Problems with Calcitriol however: typically only lasts for a few hours, also, possible complications
        Update: Pre-cursor of active vitamin D made from plants is better than calcitriol – Sept 2012
  • Category Kidney and Vitamin D contains 193 items

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Cardoso MP1, Pereira LAL2.

  • 1 Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-451 Porto, Portugal. Electronic address: mariana.pinto.cardoso at gmail.com.
  • 2 Institute of Investigation and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal; Nephrology and Infeciology Group, INEB-National Institute of Biomedical Engineer, University of Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 208, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal; Department of Nephrology, São João Hospital Center, Al. Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-451 Porto, Portugal.

Chronic kidney disease patients have a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with a variety of bone, metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. However, the role of native vitamin D supplementation (ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol or calcifediol) remains unclear in chronic kidney disease (CKD), particularly in the pre-dialytic phase. Several international guidelines have been developed on CKD-Mineral and Bone Disorder, but the optimal strategy for native vitamin D supplementation and its clinical benefit remains a subject of debate in the scientific community. This paper aims to review the available literature, including randomized clinical trials that evaluated the effects of native vitamin D supplementation on pre-dialysis CKD on biochemical and clinically relevant outcomes.


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