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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: [email protected]

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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

Prevalence and correlates of 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) cohort.

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 ...
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