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Nutritional factors, especially calcium, calorie and fat intakes may be important in the treatment with active vitamin D, so that the effect appears more efficient. Incidence of bone changes, due to hyperparathyroidism in diabetic nephropathy, was less than that in non-diabetic patients under hemodialysis. No effect of control status of diabetes mellitus was demonstrated, regarding incidence of subperiosteal resorption of finger bones. Bone mass was decreased in diabetic patients in whom the control of blood glucose was inadequate.
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