The Snake in the Garden. Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. Step by step the second chapter of Genesis has been preparing the reader for the third chapter, but coming to it for the first time we find we are still unprepared. We have been told that God made everything good.
Vitamin D Treatment in Chronic Kidney Disease. Two nonmutually exclusive vitamin D treatment strategies for CKD patients are the correction of vitamin D substrate insufficiency using nonactivated vitamin D products (cholecalciferol, ergocalciferol) and direct activated vitamin D therapy using calcitriol or an analogue.
Recommendations for Vitamin D Therapy in the Course of CKD. A reasonable approach to the therapy of disorders of bone and mineral metabolism in CKD, on the basis of current Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative (KDOQI) guidelines and clinical and experimental data, are proposed in Figure 2.