Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast
Health & Fitness:Medicine
Freely Filtered 049: Getting Salty with SODIUM-HF
The Filtrate:
Joel Topf
Swapnil Hiremath
Josh Waitzman
Sophia Ambruso
Special Guests:
Boback Ziaeian @boback Assistant Professor of Medicine David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. His Google Schoolar page is better than yours.
And returning for her third time (why sdo we keep inviting her back?)
Sadiya Khan @heartDocSadiya Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Preventative Medicine at Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Link
Editor: Sophia Ambruso
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Show Notes:
2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure says:
Restricting dietary sodium is a common nonpharmacological treatment for patients with HF symptomatic with congestion, but specific recommendations have been based on low-quality evidence. Concerns about the quality of data regarding clinical benefits or harm of sodium restriction in patients with HF include the lack of current pharmacological therapy, small samples without sufficient racial and ethnic diversity, questions about the correct threshold for clinical benefit, uncertainty about which subgroups benefit most from sodium restriction, and serious questions about the validity of several RCTs in this area. However, there are promising pilot trials of sodium restriction in patients with HF. The AHA currently recommends a reduction of sodium intake to
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