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Pediatr Nephrol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2016 May 28. Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Nephrol. 2016 January ; 31(1): 121–129. doi:10.1007/s00467-015-3190-7.
Prevalence and correlates of 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) cohort Juhi Kumar1,9, Kelly McDermott2, Alison G. Abraham2, Lisa Aronson Friedman3, Valerie L. Johnson1, Frederick J. Kaskel4, Susan L. Furth5, Bradley A. Warady6, Anthony A. Portale7, and Michal L. Melamed8 Juhi Kumar:
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1Department
of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA
2Department
of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD,
USA 3Outcomes
after Critical Illness and Surgery Group, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
4Department
of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
5Perelman
School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Division of Nephrology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
6Department
of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City,
MO, USA
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7Department
of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
8Department
of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx,
NY, USA 9505
East 70th Street, Box 176, New York, NY 10021, USA
Abstract Background—Vitamin D plays an important role in the mineral and bone disorder seen in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Deficiency of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) is highly prevalent in the adult CKD population.
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Methods—The prevalence and determinants of 25OHD deficiency (defined as a level