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The Filtrate:

Joel Topf

Swapnil Hiremath

Nayan Arora

Sophie Ambruso

Joshua Weisman

Editor

Joel Topf

Show Notes:

Soccer star Christian Eriksen 'was gone' after on-field cardiac arrest, doctor says (NBC News)

120-sided Die. This was covered in Wired Magazine. Respect. https://www.wired.com/2016/05/mathematical-challenge-of-designing-the-worlds-most-complex-120-sided-dice/

Nephrologists that played D&D: https://twitter.com/kidney_boy/status/1398660927680036865?s=20

Doctors that played D&D (i.e. control group): https://twitter.com/kidney_boy/status/1398661170328899586?s=20

Average sodium intake among Americans is 3,400 mg (147 mEq of Na per day). Sodium and the Dietary Guideline Factsheet (PDF)

DASH Sodium Diet Trial https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJM200101043440101

The PURE Trial as discussed by NephJC and as seen in the NEJM

Formulas to Estimate Dietary Sodium Intake From Spot Urine Alter Sodium-Mortality Relationship https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13117

The Taiwan Nursing Home study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16762939/

Peruvian Cluster RCT of sodium reduction in Nature (oooh!) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0754-2

DASH Diet in CKD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4957723/

A comparison of treating metabolic acidosis in CKD stage 4 hypertensive kidney disease with fruits and vegetables or sodium bicarbonate https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23393104/

ACCORD https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa1001286

Kidney Damage Biomarkers and Incident CKD During Blood Pressure Reduction: A Case-Control Study within SPRINT https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6953744/

Association of Urinary Biomarkers of Inflammation, Injury, and Fibrosis with Renal Function Decline: The ACCORD Trial

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