Vitamin D deficiency in chronic kidney disease: myth or reality?
Clin Chim Acta. 2021 Sep 1;S0009-8981(21)00310-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cca.2021.08.032
Priyadarshini G 1, Sreejith Parameswaran 2, Jayaprakash Sahoo 3, Sandhiya Selvarajan 4, Medha Rajappa 5
Kidney category starts with
Kidney category listing hassee also Overview Kidney and vitamin D
Peritoneal dialysis in titles in VitaminDWiki (3 titles as of Oct 2021)
CKD or CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE in title of 65 pages as of Dec 2022
- Kidney Inflammation not reduced by 30 ng Vitamin D (many health problems need 50 ng) – Nov 2022
- Chronic Kidney Disease decreases Vitamin D in 4 ways – Nov 2017
- Half as much chronic kidney disease infection if supplement with Vitamin D – 2018
- 2.4 times more likely to die if have Chronic Kidney Disease and low vitamin D - Sept 2016
- 4X more Chronic Kidney disease patients are now using vitamin D – March 2014
- Poor kidneys rarely get enough or the right form of vitamin D – Feb 2019
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 - Category Kidney and Vitamin D contains
220 items Increased use of D has the following
People have been noticing, and increasing vitamin D (53 items) Studies are showing increased Vitamin D consumption and associated
Increased levels of vitamin D PLUS increased health- Vitamin D levels increased in Saudi Arabia over a decade (more sun or supplements) – Sept 2021
- 26 X increase in Vitamin D prescriptions for youths in England in 8 years – Dec 2019
- Vitamin D levels continue to rise in the US - April 2019
- 93 pcnt of these Lupus patients supplemented with Vitamin D - Nov 2020
- UK people with Multiple Sclerosis are 3X more likely to take Vitamin D - Oct 2020
- Parkinson patients: 60 pcnt taking Vitamin D – Dec 2019
- The use of Vitamin D to prevent prostate cancer doubled in a decade – May 2019
- Vitamin D levels continue to rise in the US - April 2019
- Vitamin D levels at Mayo Clinic increased over a decade – June 2018
- Parkinson’s patients – 41 percent now supplement with Vitamin D – Nov 2017
- Vitamin D levels in US: percent having more than 40 ng doubled (2001-2010) - Dec 2016
- Rickets almost eradicated in counties giving free Vitamin D, perhaps the world can learn – Dec 2019
- Vitamin D supplementation in Ireland - big increase in people with 20-50 nanograms in 20 years – June 2015
- Vitamin D in US children: those having more than 40 ng increased 60 percent (2001-2010) - Dec 2016
- 4 times fewer with vitamin D deficiency in just 4 years ( Connecticut) – March 2016
- 20X increase in vitamin D sold and 36 percent decrease in osteoporosis business in Australia – Nov 2013
- Many more people now have vitamin D levels above 50 ng, especially seniors – May 2015
- has the following chart for one US county
Background and objective: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem, which has a prevalence of 17.2% in India. As kidney function decreases, there is a gradual deterioration in the regulation of bone mineral homeostasis. Vitamin D is recognized as the central player in the maintenance of bonehealth in CKD. Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) guidelines suggest that vitamin D supplementation should be given to all CKD patients with serum 25-hydroxyvitaminD (25(OH)D) level < 30 ng/mL. Hence we undertook this study to evaluate the vitamin D status in South Indian patients with CKD.Methods: Fifty-nine non-dialysis CKD patients of stage 3 and 4 were recruited and screened for 25(OH)D deficiency. Circulating levels of 25(OH)D were measured using chemiluminescence immunoassay. The estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) was calculated using the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology (CKD-EPI) equation. Serum calcium, phosphorous, creatinine and alkaline phosphatase levels were measured spectrophotometrically by an autoanalyzer.
Results: Contrary to published literature, 75% of South Indian CKD patients had normal 25(OH)D (≥30ng/mL), 15% of them had insufficient (20-29 ng/mL) and 10% had 25(OH)D deficiency (<20 ng/mL). Alkaline phosphatase levels were found to be increased in only 20% of cases. Calcium1 levels were normal in all CKD cases and hyperphosphatemia was observed in 5% of CKD patients.
Conclusion: We found that most of our CKD patients (75%) had normal vitamin D levels. This paradoxical finding could be explained by the fact that most of them gave a history of intake of vitamin D and calcium supplements, as advised by their doctors before coming to our institute. Hence we conclude that before prescribing vitamin D or calcium supplements to CKD patients, their 25(OH)D status should be ascertained to prevent hypervitaminosis D and its complications.
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