ReviewNutrients2017
Vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease and Dialysis Patients.
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172 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 347 citations in OpenAlex.
- Risk prediction models for malnutrition in dialysis patients in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Renal failure · 2026Pooled it
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- Clinical Efficacy of Vitamin D Supplements for the Treatment of Anemia in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis · 2026Pooled it
- Global and regional prevalence of osteopenia in chronic kidney disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Association between Vitamin D and Peripheral Arterial Disease and its Value as a Prognostic and Diagnostic Marker A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2025Pooled it
- Is the vitamin D status of patients with COVID-19 associated with reduced mortality? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of endocrinology and metabolism · 2023Pooled it
- The association between serum vitamin D and obstructive sleep apnea: an updated meta-analysis.Respiratory research · 2020Pooled it
- Osteoporosis in Patients with Chronic Kidney Diseases: A Systemic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Pooled it
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- Randomized trial of influence of vitamin D on the prevention and improvement of symptomatic COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Low vitamin D levels are linked with increased cardiovascular disease risk in young adults: a sub-study and secondary analyses from the ACTIBATE randomized controlled trial.Journal of endocrinological investigation · 2024Trial
- Impact of Vitamin D3 Versus Placebo on Cardiac Structure and Function: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Trial
- Prediction Model between Serum Vitamin D and Neurological Deficit in Cerebral Infarction Patients Based on Machine Learning.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2022Trial
- In vitro anti-inflammatory effects of vitamin D supplementation may be blurred in hemodialysis patients.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2021Trial
- Effectiveness of using STOPP/START criteria to identify potentially inappropriate medication in people aged ≥ 65 years with chronic kidney disease: a randomized clinical trial.European journal of clinical pharmacology · 2019Trial
- Cholecalciferol supplementation increases FGF23 in peritoneal dialysis patients with hypovitaminosis D: a randomized clinical trial.Journal of nephrology · 2019Trial
- Association of Serum 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D Levels with Erythropoietin Resistance Index-Based Relative Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent Hyporesponsiveness in Pre-Dialysis Chronic Kidney Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Nutritional Status in Chinese Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective 1-Year Follow-Up Study.Obesity surgery · 2026Article
- Intravenous Paricalcitol Versus Calcitriol for Secondary Hyperparathyroidism in Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Six-Month Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Cholecalciferol and muscle strength in hemodialysis patients: results from the randomized VITADIAL trial.Clinical kidney journal · 2026Article
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Abstract
Vitamin D deficiency (<20 ng/mL) and insufficiency (20-29 ng/mL) are common among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) or undergoing dialysis. In addition to nutritional and sunlight exposure deficits, factors that affect vitamin D deficiency include race, sex, age, obesity and impaired vitamin D synthesis and metabolism. Serum 1,25(OH)₂D levels also decrease progressively because of 25(OH)D deficiency, together with impaired availability of 25(OH)D by renal proximal tubular cells, high fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-23 and decreased functional renal tissue. As in the general population, this condition is associated with increased morbidity and poor outcomes. Together with the progressive decline of serum calcitriol, vitamin D deficiency leads to secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) and its complications, tertiary hyperparathyroidism and hypercalcemia, which require surgical parathyroidectomy or calcimimetics. Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) and Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) experts have recognized that vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency should be avoided in CKD and dialysis patients by using supplementation to prevent SHPT. Many vitamin D supplementation regimens using either ergocalciferol or cholecalciferol daily, weekly or monthly have been reported. The benefit of native vitamin D supplementation remains debatable because observational studies suggest that vitamin D receptor activator (VDRA) use is associated with better outcomes and it is more efficient for decreasing the serum parathormone (PTH) levels. Vitamin D has pleiotropic effects on the immune, cardiovascular and neurological systems and on antineoplastic activity. Extra-renal organs possess the enzymatic capacity to convert 25(OH)D to 1,25(OH)₂D. Despite many unanswered questions, much data support vitamin D use in renal patients. This article emphasizes the role of native vitamin D replacement during all-phases of CKD together with VDRA when SHPT persists.
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