Blacks have 4X more Kidney disease than whites – probably due to low vitamin D

Kidney failure: A leading cause of death in African Americans Bay State Banner

• “The problem is that kidney disease is initially silent. Damage progresses slowly and quietly through five stages. Stage 5 is considered end-stage kidney failure. At that point, only two procedures — dialysis or transplantation — can keep a person alive.”

Dark skin ==> Low Vitamin D

Smoking ==> Low Vitamin D

Obesity ==> Low Vitamin D

Low vitamin D ==> Diabetes ==> Kidney failure

Low vitamin D ==> High blood pressure ==> Kidney failure

Low vitamin D ==> Lupus ==> Kidney failure

See also VitaminDWiki

• Chronic Kidney Disease study not aware of appropriate forms of vitamin D – March 2014

• Kidney Inflammation: both prevented and reduced by Vitamin D – review Jan 2014

• 4X more Chronic Kidney disease patients are now using vitamin D – March 2014

Overview Kidney and vitamin D contains the following summary

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The items in both Kidney and Dark skin categories in VitaminDWiki are:

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Diseases that may be related via low vitamin D has the following chart

See also web

• AFRICAN AMERICANS & KIDNEY DISEASE National Kidney Foundation