Only 16% of fast food entrees are free of phosphorus-containing additives, a study found. They need to know how to identify phosphate additives on food labels. Clinicians attempt to control patients’ ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with advanced kidney disease are taught to avoid certain foods that are naturally high in the mineral phosphorus, which is difficult for their compromised kidneys to ...

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 ...

The authors concluded: “The mounting evidence that individual education, adequate health literacy, and dialysis modality do not translate into an improved knowledge of dietary phosphorus suggests that ...