Reducing salt intake may help protect kidney patients' heart and kidney health

ublic Release: 17-Nov-2016
Reducing salt intake may help protect kidney patients' heart and kidney health
American Society of Nephrology

Highlights

In patients with chronic kidney disease, dietary sodium restriction reduced albuminuria (an indicator of kidney dysfunction) and blood pressure, whereas paricalcitol (a vitamin D receptor activator) in itself had no significant effect on these measures.

The combination of paricalcitol and a low sodium diet resulted in the lowest albuminuria levels in patients.

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