Highlights from the May 2007 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
... amounts. Consumption of vitamin A, magnesium and phosphorus was "suboptimal" in children older than 9. The la... drops in riboflavin, zinc, calcium, magnesium and phosphorus consumption occurred among all children during the three years of the study. "The dropoff in mic...New report reveals African-Americans may lack key nutrients for optimal health
...ve lower average intakes of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus and consume fewer servings of dairy foods than non African Americans. African Americans in all age groups do not meet the 2005 Dietary Guidelines recommendation for three daily servings of low-fat or fat-free milk or milk products. "Researchers con...Fosrenol data show evidence of trends towards improved bone formation in CKD stage 5 patients
...CKD) Stage 5 patients with hyperphosphatemia (high phosphorus levels in the blood), according to long-term (two-...lts showed that FOSRENOL effectively reduced serum phosphorus levels. In addition, FOSRENOL treatment was associated with lower serum calcium, higher serum parat...Katie Lee Joel joins Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods program
...obbler Strawberry Pie Katie is conducting a low phosphorus cooking demonstration of her recipes at the AAKP m...chronic kidney disease on dialysis to follow a low phosphorus diet, because most dialysis patients will develop hyperphosphatemia (high serum phosphorus levels in...Penn researchers to get 7 Tesla whole-body MRI system
...er nuclei in the human body such as sodium (23Na), phosphorus (31P), oxygen (17O) and carbon (13C). Imaging these nuclei may provide disease-specific molecular and functional information unobtainable on conventional MRIs. With further technique development, we can detect disease in a way never seen before." ...Old technology helps find new test for leg artery disease
...ents with PAD, and people without PAD, recovered a phosphorus substance called phosphocreatine (PCr), the major energy "store" in muscle cells. Tests at UVa on 20 patients with mild to moderate PAD and 14 people without PAD, showed that the median time to recover phosphocreatine at the end of exercise in PAD pa...FOSRENOL significantly reduces tablet burden for end-stage renal patients with hyperphosphatemia
...ate binder therapies provides continued mean serum phosphorus control for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patient...ients taking 1,350 mg of FOSRENOL per day achieved phosphorus control after a median treatment duration of 14 days, whereas those taking 2,250 mg/day achieved con...High blood pressure and kidney disease increase risk for heart disease and stroke in older Americans
...re, such as anemia or abnormalities of calcium or phosphorus metabolism, for example. We are participating in other ongoing studies to establish the connections," he said. The study also confirmed other earlier findings that diuretics are as effective as or better for preventing cardiovascular disease than ne...Higher dose formulation of FOSRENOL approved to reduce serum phosphorus in esrd patients
...isease (ESRD) patients must take to achieve target phosphorus levels, thereby helping to simplify the treatment ...eted by Shire Pharmaceuticals. Even with a low phosphorus diet, 60 percent of ESRD patients on dialysis in the United States may develop hyperphosphatemia (hi...Vitamin D compounds show promise for prevention of prostate cancer
...vels (which regulate the metabolism of calcium and phosphorus in the body). The researchers then studied the effects of calcitriol and QW on the prevention of androgen-dependent prostate cancer in the transgenic adenocarcinoma of mouse prostate (TRAMP) model, which develops prostate cancer as the mice age. B...