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.
Vitamin D deficiency is often a silent disease. By definition, rickets occurs in children whose growth plates have not fused. These children are often found to have started walking late or prefer to sit down for prolonged periods. In adults, vitamin D deficiency results in osteomalacia, which presents as a poorly mineralized skeletal matrix. Adults in these cases can experience chronic muscle aches and pains. Vitamin D deficiency is the most common cause of nutritional rickets. Rare genetic forms of rickets occur because of defects in vitamin D metabolism.