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. 2019 Oct 22;2019(10):CD005015. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005015.pub4

Arnol 2011.

Methods
  • Study design: parallel RCT

  • Duration of study: not reported

  • Duration of follow‐up: 24 weeks

Participants
  • Country: Slovenia

  • Setting: single centre

  • Inclusion criteria: kidney transplant recipients at least 3 months' post transplant with UPCR ≥ 20 mg/mmol despite optimisation of RAAS blockade during run‐in phase

  • Number: treatment group (83); control group (85)

  • Mean age ± SD (years): not reported

  • Sex (M/F): not reported

  • Exclusion criteria: not reported

Interventions Treatment group
  • Paricalcitol: 2 µg/d


Control group
  • Placebo


Co‐interventions
  • Not reported

Outcomes
  • UPCR

  • UACR

  • IL6 and TGF‐beta plasma concentrations

Notes
  • Abstract‐only publication, no full‐text publication identified

  • Funding source: not reported

  • Trial registration: not reported

Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Double‐blinded
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) 
 All outcomes Low risk Double‐blinded
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement
Selective reporting (reporting bias) High risk Patient‐level outcomes including adverse events were not systematically reported
Other bias Unclear risk Insufficient information to permit judgement