Cutting dietary phosphate doesn't save dialysis patients' lives, study suggests
Friday, December 10, 2010 - 02:30
in Health & Medicine
Doctors often ask kidney disease patients on dialysis to limit the amount of phosphate they consume in their diets, but this does not help prolong their lives, according to a new study. The results even suggest that prescribing low phosphate diets may increase dialysis patients' risk of premature death.