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

<h4>Background</h4>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 outc...

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Autores principales: Lingyun Lai, Jing Qian, Yanjiao Yang, Qionghong Xie, Huaizhou You, Ying Zhou, Shuai Ma, Chuanming Hao, Yong Gu, Feng Ding
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Publicado: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/29f2d3f8ee6e4432a81a16249456050b
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Sumario:<h4>Background</h4>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.<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>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 also followed up for 90 days and grouped according to vitamin D receptor gene mutations. Low serum 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D levels (59.56±53.00 pmol/L) were detected in patients with AKI and decreased with increasing severity of AKI. There were no significant findings with respect to 25-hydroxyvitamin D. The 90-day survival curves of individuals with high vitamin D concentrations showed no significant differences compared with the curves of individuals with low concentrations. The survival curves of patients with BB/Bb or FF/Ff genotypes also showed no significant differences compared with patients with bb or ff genotypes. In Cox regression analysis, the vitamin D status in patients with AKI was not an independent prognostic factor as adjusted by age, sex, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment score, or vitamin D receptor polymorphisms.<h4>Conclusions/significance</h4>Patients with AKI manifested a marked decrease in the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D level at the time of AKI diagnosis, and the degree of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D deficiency increased with the severity of AKI. No association between the serum vitamin D level at the time of AKI diagnosis and 90-day all-cause mortality was found in patients with AKI.