Vitamin D linked to reduced mortality rate in CKD
Thursday, May 8, 2008 - 03:56
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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