Vitamin D linked to reduced mortality rate in CKD

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 - 12:56 in Health & Medicine

For patients with moderate to severe chronic kidney disease (CKD), treatment with activated vitamin D may reduce the risk of death by approximately one-fourth, suggests a study in the August Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

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