Vitamin D Effect on Calcium Absorption on Persons on Hemodialysis

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Conditions studied: Chronic Kidney Disease, End Stage Renal Disease, Vitamin D Deficiency

In brief

The assumption has been that 1,25(OH)2D is solely responsible for calcium absorption. That has been one of the presumed causes of hyperparathyroidism in chronic kidney disease (CKD) (low 1,25(OH)2D leads to decreased calcium absorption, which increases parathyroid hormone release in compensation). Replacing 1,25 D directly has been the goal with using 1,25D or its analogues in CKD. There is very little data concerning use of native vitamin D or 25(OH)D in CKD, although autocrine functions in extrarenal tissues would use 25(OH)D. The latest KDIGO guidelines do recognize the autocrine role of vitamin D, but have no data on outcomes or doses or optimal levels to guide them and so have made a blanket recommendation to treat 25D levels in CKD by general healthy population guidelines. 1. This project focuses on an outcome (calcium absorption) that may be impacted by optimizing 25D status in renal patients. The investigators will assume for this project that a level of 25D \> 32 ng/ml is optimal in CKD patients as in a healthy population. 2. A secondary outcome is to quantify calcium absorption in CKD patients with and without vitamin D repletion and to quantify systemic 1,25D levels. This may clarify the roles 25D and 1,25D play in calcium absorption.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01325610

Run by

Creighton University

People needed

37

Starts

2011-04-01

Expected to finish

2012-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-04-04

Who can join

Age: 19 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• on hemodialysis
• > 19 years of age

You may not qualify if…

• Pregnancy or planned pregnancy
• Hypercalcemia (> 10.2 mg/dl) at baseline
• Chronic GI disease
• Liver dysfunction
• Taking steroids
• Received any investigational drugs within 4 weeks
• Any allergy to vitamin D3
• Chronic vitamin D intake > 1,000 IU daily
• Dialysate concentration (calcium 2.5mg/L) which is to remain constant during Rx

Where it is running

• Creighton University — Omaha, Nebraska, United States

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