Phosphorus-lowering drugs linked to lower mortality in dialysis patients

Thursday, December 18, 2008 - 07:15 in Health & Medicine

For patients on dialysis, taking medications to reduce levels of the mineral phosphorus in the blood may reduce the risk of death by 25 to 30 percent, reports a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN)...

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