Elevated serum phosphorus is a strong independent risk factor for mortality in maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients, so controlling serum phosphorus levels is a priority (Kidney Int. 2006;70: ...

Other studies also show widespread ignorance of phosphorus in the dialysis population. For instance, in a study of 117 dialysis patients, Rajiv D. Poduval, MD, and colleagues found that 74% of ...

The healthy kidney regulates blood levels of phosphorus and potassium, but the diseased kidney is typically unable to do so. High levels of either can lead to death.

Physicians should avoid judging patient adherence to dialysis based on their potassium or phosphorus levels, according to data recently published in Kidney Medicine.“Nonadherence after ...

Phosphorus levels greater than 5.5 mg/dL have been shown to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients requiring dialysis (Block 2004), and ...

A reduction in serum phosphorus levels has been accepted by the FDA as a basis for traditional approval in patients with CKD on dialysis "when the effect on serum phosphorus was sufficiently large ...

Given that Black people make up more than 35% of patients on dialysis (but only 13.2% of the U.S. population), Black people are disproportionately affected.

The approval was based on data from three phase 3 trials: BLOCK, PHREEDOM, and AMPLIFY (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02675998, NCT03427125, NCT03824587, respectively), which included more ...