Kidney-induced osteoporosis? Time to rethink.

This Perspective from Michael Pazianas and colleagues discusses ongoing controversies in the diagnosis and treatment of bone disease in the setting of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Kidney disease does not cause osteoporosis, so “kidney-induced osteoporosis”, though frequently used in the literature, is a misleading term. Only a bone biopsy can discriminate osteoporosis from several forms of renal osteodystrophy. Read more