Blacks have 4X more Kidney disease than whites – probably due to low vitamin D – March 2015

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

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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

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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 232 items

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

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

See also web

• AFRICAN AMERICANS & KIDNEY DISEASE National Kidney Foundation