Dietary Potassium Intake and Mortality in a Prospective Hemodialysis Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Among hemodialysis patients, clinical practice guidelines recommend dietary potassium restriction given concerns about potential hyperkalemia leading to malignant arrhythmias and mortality. However, there are sparse data informing recommendations for dietary potassium intake in this population. We thus sought to examine the relationship between dietary potassium intake and death risk in a prospective cohort of hemodialysis patients.

Design and methods

Among 415 hemodialysis patients from the prospective "Malnutrition, Diet, and Racial Disparities in Chronic Kidney Disease" cohort recruited across 16 outpatient dialysis clinics, information regarding dietary potassium intake was obtained using Food Frequency Questionnaires administered over October 2011 to March 20

SUBMITTER: Narasaki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8614638 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature