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Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation 2008 23(7):2118-2120; doi:10.1093/ndt/gfn175
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The long forgotten salt factor and the benefits of using a 5-g-salt-restricted diet in all ESRD patients

Stanley Shaldon1 and Joerg Vienken2

1 Monaco 98000 2 Bioscience Department, Fresenius Medical Care, Bad Homburg, FRG D-61346, Germany

Correspondence and offprint requests to: Stanley Shaldon, Monaco 98000. E-mail: stanley.shaldon@libello.com

Keywords: inflammation; lag phenomenon; non-osmotically active sodium; salt

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Writing about older concepts of therapy in medicine often provoke an automatic negative response based on assumptions that they are dinosaurian and empirical and consequently unlikely to impact upon modern therapeutic paradigms unless supported by randomized controlled studies. However, occasionally, new ideas resuscitate these forgotten paradigms and allow one to make progress from observational studies without the benefit of evidence-based medicine [1].

Such is the case with the long abandoned use of a salt-restricted . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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