Vitamin d

Over the past decades, researchers have gathered data demonstrating that vitamin D and its metabolites possess activities far beyond the classic regulation of calcium-phosphate homeostasis. It is now well established that vitamin D is essential for the proper functioning of the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, nervous, and immune systems.

Editors: Urena Torres, Pablo A., Cozzolino, Mario, Vervloet, M. (Eds.)
This book will focus on vitamin D in Chronic Kidney Disease states Discusses recent insights on vitamin D metabolism as well as its association with a diversity of non-skeletal complications, among them cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, multiple sclerosis, cancer, tuberculosis, and immune system dysfunction
New players in the regulation of vitamin synthesis and degradation have been identified and largely explored in case of CKD including FGF23 and klotho