Dietary sodium restriction: a neglected therapeutic opportunity in chronic kidney disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Restriction of dietary sodium is recommended at a population level as well as for groups at high cardiovascular risk, and chronic kidney disease (CKD). This review addresses recent evidence for the protective effect of dietary sodium restriction in CKD patients specifically.

Recent findings

Sodium intake in CKD populations is generally high, and often above population average. Recent data demonstrated that moderately lower sodium intake in CKD patients is associated with substantially better long-term outcome of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS)-blockade, in diabetic and nondiabetic CKD, related to better effects of RAAS-blockade on proteinuria, independent of blood pressure. This is in line with better short-term efficacy of RAAS-blockade during

SUBMITTER: Humalda JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4189688 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature