Open AccessActive Vitamin D and Acute Respiratory Infections in Dialysis Patients
Author(s) -
Yoshihiro Tsujimoto,
Hideki Tahara,
Tetsuo Shoji,
Masanori Emoto,
Hideki Koyama,
Eiji Ishimura,
Tsutomu Tabata,
Yoshiki Nishizawà,
Masaaki Inaba
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.08871010
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , hazard ratio , vitamin d and neurology , dialysis , hemodialysis , respiratory system , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , physics , optics
Vitamin D has gained attention for its pleiotropic effects in areas other than bone metabolism, and the effects of vitamin D in preventing respiratory infections have been reported as one of its immunomodulating properties. This study assessed the preventive effect of vitamin D receptor activator (VDRA) on respiratory infections in dialysis patients.