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- Title
Vitamin D levels, bone turnover and bone mineral density show seasonal variation in patients with chronic kidney disease stage 5.
- Authors
Elder, Grahame J
- Abstract
Many patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have reduced levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D). Although renal conversion of 25(OH)D to calcitriol is reduced or absent in CKD stage 5 (GFR < 15 mL/min per 1.73 m(2) or on dialysis), 25(OH)D may have direct skeletal and non-skeletal paracrine actions. The aim of this study was to assess seasonal variation in levels of 25(OH)D, bone turnover markers and bone mineral density, which would support a direct physiological role for 25(OH)D.
- Publication
Nephrology (Carlton, Vic.), 2007, Vol 12, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
1320-5358
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1440-1797.2006.00754.x