Transplantation: Supplemental vitamin D: will do no harm and might do good.
Vitamin D insufficiency is endemic amongst renal transplant recipients,as it is in other individuals with chronic diseases, both within and beyond nephrology. Few data exist to guide vitamin D replacement strategies,but indirect evidence points to likely skeletal, and possibly extraskeletal, benefits from supplementation.
John
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Cunningham
D012080:Chronic Kidney Disease-Mineral and Bone Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014807:Vitamin D / Q000502:physiology / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014815:Vitamins / Q000502:physiology / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D014815:Vitamins; D014807:Vitamin D