Dietary Sodium Restriction in Hemodialysis Patients

Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Hemodialysis Patients

Treatments: Other: Sodium restriction

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01896882

UFRGS and HCPA - 120109

Details and patient eligibility

About

Excess dietary sodium can lead to poor outcomes, such as hypertension, edema and increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. These complications are associated with end stage renal disease (ESRD) progression and mortality in renal patients. This study aims to evaluate the effects of nutritional counseling restricting dietary sodium and its relation to clinical and diet factors, nutritional knowledge and quality of life in hemodialysis patients.

Enrollment: 112 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical stable patients on dialysis for at least 3 months, over 18 years old, of both sexes, who agree to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with low cognitive ability, psychiatric disorders, with acute or infectious disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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112 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Nutritional education on sodium restriction diet.

Treatment:

Other: Sodium restriction

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard treatment.