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Individuals with kidney disease have a high risk of heart disease. This is not related to traditional risk factors, such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol or being overweight. A lack of vitamin D could be the reason why blood vessels become damaged and could explain the link between heart disease and kidney disease.


Clinical Trial Description

Most people living in Canada do not receive enough vitamin D from the sun or from the food they eat. When a person has kidney disease this is a particular problem as kidney disease stops what little vitamin D we do have being activated in the body. Low levels of activated vitamin D causes a domino effect with calcium and phosphate and all the hormones that control calcium and phosphate. Some people believe that this imbalance damages the blood vessels causing them to become stiff and inflexible (arterial stiffness) and this in turn could cause heart disease. In addition there are two different types of vitamin D that can be prescribed and it is currently not known whether there is any difference between the two types of vitamin D and the effect they have on the blood vessels.

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether providing vitamin D as a medication can have a direct affect on the stiffness of the blood vessels. The findings of this study will help both physicians and dietitians decide whether Vitamin D therapy is beneficial to patients and should help decide which type of Vitamin D is best to give to people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). ;


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NCT number NCT01247311
Study type Interventional
Source University of British Columbia
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date November 2010
Completion date August 2014

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