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Evaluation of Increased Fruits and Vegetables Consumption in Chronic Kidney Disease

United States13 participantsStarted 2020-11-24

Plain-language summary

This study aims to investigate the feasibility of increasing dietary consumption of a rich variety of fruits and vegetables (including those that are potassim-rich) in patients with chronic kidney disease through use of nutritional counselling and hyperkalemia management with patiromer

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion criteria

✓. Adult patients ≥ 18 years of age with chronic kidney disease and hyperkalemia
✓. Chronic kidney disease is defined as eGFR 15-44ml/min/1.73m2
✓. Documented hyperkalemia which is defined as serum potassium ≥ 5.0 mmol/L during the last 90 days
✓. Diet evaluation for hyperkalemia (serum potassium ≥ 5.0) during the last 90 days
✓. Patients receiving RASS inhibitors, beta-blockers, or diuretics to be on stable doses for 2 weeks
✓. Patients already receiving patiromer are eligible

Exclusion criteria

✕. Patients with a known allergy to patiromer
✕. Patients currently taking other potassium controlling agents.

What they're measuring

By increasing the consumption of Fruits and Vegetable in their daily diet using the Nutritional Fruits and Vegetable Diary based off of the USDA Nutritive Value of foods and completing the Quality of Life Nutritional Questionnaire.

Timeframe: 3 years

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05050110

SponsorNand Wadhwa

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2026-12

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