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.
In the document. focusing on adults, guideline 7 describes the preven-. tion and treatment of vitamin D insufï¬ciency and. vitamin D deï¬ciency in patients with CKD and in-. cludes the suggestion to measure 25-hydroxyvitamin. D (25[OH]D) in individuals with stages 3-4 CKD in. the setting of secondary hyperparathyroidism in order. to identify individuals who would beneï¬tfrom25(OH) D supplementation. Guideline 7 was based on opinion, given the absence of clinical trial data to support. 25(OH)D supplementation in individuals with CKD.