“…Notably, through advances in our understanding of CKD-MBD pathogenesis, the concept of CKD-MBD continues to evolve and the boundaries of CKD-MBD are expanding to cover a wider range of diseases. Based on recent reports [14,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31], the complications considered to be associated with CKD-MBD include a variety of pathologies, such as dementia, anemia, secondary hyperparathyroidism, ventricular hypertrophy, valvular and vascular calcification, heart failure, arrhythmia, constipation, renal inflammation and fibrosis, hepatic inflammation, sarcopenia, malnutrition, malignancy, infection, and fractures (Fig. 1).…”