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Credit: Getty Images The guidance is invaluable to keep patients with CKD healthy – especially through the holiday eating season and into a fresh new year. For better or worse, food additives can ...

Potassium is a crucial electrolyte that helps your body perform a wide range of functions. It helps regulate fluid balance, supports muscle contractions, and maintains healthy nerve function. A diet ...

Collagen, peptides, and antioxidants might be considered the holy trinity of skincare, but the importance of essential minerals shouldn’t be overlooked. After all, we all know how important magnesium, ...

Clinicians and their patients with kidney disease are now getting new guidance on potassium and phosphorus additives, two nutrients of growing concern in chronic kidney disease (CKD) management. In ...

Watermelon is a tasty and nutritious fruit but it is possible, though rare, to have reactions to it that can negatively affect your health. Eating watermelon for a weight-loss or cleansing diet could ...

Madrid, Spain – 29 August 2025: Targeting high-normal potassium levels reduced the risk of arrhythmias, hospitalisation for heart failure or arrhythmia and death compared with no intervention, ...

Low potassium levels in the blood, known as hypokalemia, is a potentially dangerous condition that can affect anyone. During pregnancy, it is common for a woman’s potassium levels to drop due to ...

MADRID -- For patients with cardiovascular disease, efforts to raise potassium levels paid off in terms of a reduction in the risk of ventricular arrhythmias in the POTCAST randomized trial. High-risk ...

MADRID — Among patients with any cardiovascular disease who had an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and were at high risk for ventricular arrhythmias, increasing potassium levels led to a ...

MADRID, Spain—Increasing low potassium levels improves clinical outcomes among patients with cardiovascular disease and a high risk for ventricular arrhythmias, the randomized POTCAST trial shows.