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Longitudinal Nutritional and Cardiorenal Changes Among Patients Prescribed a Ketoanalogue-Supplemented Very-Low-Protein Diet in Advanced Nondialysis Chronic Kidney Disease with Chronic Heart Failure: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Article C Peer reviewed Observational

Key takeaways

This study followed 75 people with late-stage kidney disease and heart failure. They ate a very low-protein diet with special supplements. The researchers tracked their health over a median of 243 days. This is an observational study, so it shows a link but not proof of cause.

Who did this work

Tanasescu MD · Rosu AM · Minca A · Andrieș Ioniță EI · Timofte D · Constantin LD · Voiculescu DI · Ionescu D

Source

Article · PubMed, Nutritional supplements and CKD · 2026 Sep 20
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42797051/