Nutrition News

Probiotic supplements are generally beneficial in the reduction of urea in patients with non-dialysis chronic kidney disease, whereas no evidence suggested that probiotics possessed meaningful impacts on the reduction of uric acid, C-reactive protein, creatinine and eGFR preservation of CKD population.

SAN DIEGO — Dialysis patients with end-stage renal disease who consumed high quantities of dietary fiber had less inflammation and less myocardial hypertrophy and injury, according to research presented at ASN Kidney Week.

SAN DIEGO — Nearly half of primary care providers never discuss or recommend lowering dietary sodium intake with patients who could benefit from such diet, including those with kidney disease, according to data presented at ASN Kidney Week.

When presented together, malnutrition, fluid overload and resulting inflammation can have a detrimental effect on survival among patients with ESRD, according to a study by researchers from the Netherlands and the United States. However, malnutrition as a singular risk factor “was not associated with increased mortality risk,” the study authors noted. “The highest mortality risk was observed in patients where all three risk factors were present.”

Among the top nutritional stories in nephrology include a report that medical nutrition therapy may slow the progression of CKD while reducing costs. Other top stories include that the Mediterranean diet may benefit patients with CKD and plant-based diets could reverse diabetic kidney lesions.

Although medical nutrition therapy can slow the progression of CKD and significantly reduce health care costs, 90% of non-dialysis users never meet with a dietitian, according to a report that appears in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

In the United States, 22.9% of adults aged 18 to 64 years met the federal leisure-time physical activity guidelines for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities in 2010-2015, according to a recent CDC and HHS report.

While patients on hemodialysis understand the value and intent of following a renal diet to reduce the risk of morbidity and mortality, outside influences, including conflicting information from other sources about what to eat and drink while on dialysis, can often disrupt efforts to succeed, an Australian survey shows.

AUSTIN, Texas — A poster presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings reportedly is the first to hypothesize that it may be possible to reverse diabetic kidney lesions by way of dietary changes. The author speculated that plant-based diets can improve, and possibly even reverse, diabetes in select patients.

The ketogenic diet was recently called the “latest buzzy” weight loss plan by the mainstream media. However, this particular weight loss plan actually dates, according to some estimates, to as early as 500 BC.