Chronic Kidney disease not helped much by vitamin D provided you ignore dose size – meta-analysis Sept 2013

Vitamin D supplementation and mortality risk in chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis of 20 observational studies

BMC Nephrology 2013, 14:199
Zhenfeng Zheng, Huilan Shi, Junya Jia, Dong Li and Shan Lin

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Chronic kidney with low vitamin D: 90 percent of pediatric nephrologists now recommend more D – Feb 2013
• Standard and artificial vitamin D both help Chronic Kidney Disease – meta-analysis April 2013
• Vitamin D reduced risk of death of Chronic Kidney Disease by 30 percent: Meta-analysis March 2013

Overview Kidney and vitamin D contains the following summary

• FACT: The Kidneys are not the primary way to activate vitamin D; the tissues are
• 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 ongoing 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: 38% of seniors have Chronic Kidney Disease and most are unaware of it CDC statistics 2020
• 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,
  Nanoemulstion vitamin D (inside cheek, topically) gets activated Vitamin D to the cells without the need for healthy kidney, liver, or intestine
  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
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