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The relevance of dietary sodium in hemodialysis
Finnian R Mc Causland1, Sushrut S Waikar, Steven M Brunelli
1Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract:
Since the earliest days of hemodialysis, dietary sodium restriction has been recommended as a therapeutic means to mitigate problems of extracellular volume overload, hypertension and inter-dialytic weight gain. Recently, there has been a proliferation of human subjects' research examining the potential effects of dietary sodium curtailment. Herein we examine the available evidence with respect to the effects of dietary sodium restriction on clinically relevant endpoints among hemodialysis patients.
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