title: Prescriptions for dietary sodium in patients with chronic kidney disease: how will this shake out?
abstract: Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at risk of exhibiting expanded extracellular volume, and low-sodium diets are often prescribed to limit clinical complications from this condition. Fan et al. performed a post hoc study from the database of the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study. Their article, as well as other recent observations, suggests that a low-sodium diet may not be as beneficial as previously thought in all CKD patients.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Middleton
authors.affiliation: Division of Nephrology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: Ruediger W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Lehrich
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000652:urine*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000652:urine*; D008297:Male; D007690:Polycystic Kidney Diseases / Q000652:urine*; D012964:Sodium / Q000652:urine*
chemical_list: D012964:Sodium