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A late 2007 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine (Ann. Intern. Med. 2007; 147: 840-853 and contained a meta-analysis from the Renal Cochrane Group, and two editorial comments questioning the evidence of the systematic prescription of vitamin D compounds to CKD patients and to patients on dialysis. A somewhat provocative editorial comment in this issue by Olgaard and Lewin criticized some of the statements in the contributions in the Annals and