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.

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