Is the serum vitamin D level at the time of hospital-acquired acute kidney injury diagnosis associated with prognosis?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low circulating vitamin D levels have been suggested to potentially contribute to acute complications in critically ill patients. However, in patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), whether vitamin D deficiency occurs and is a potential contributor to worse early outcomes at the time of AKI diagnosis remains unclear.

Methodology/principal findings

Two hundred patients with AKI were enrolled in our study. Healthy subjects and critically ill patients without AKI served as controls. Serum vitamin D concentrations were measured in the three groups. The patients with AKI were followed up for 90 days and grouped according to median serum vitamin D concentrations. In addition, vitamin D receptor polymorphisms (BsmI and FokI) were measured in these patients; they were al

SUBMITTER: Lai L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3661528 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature