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Potassium

How eating bananas during dialysis impacts potassium levels

March 21, 2025March 21, 2025 Kelly Picard PhD RD

Today’s Journal Club article was sent to me by a good friend who came across it while researching the impact of eating during dialysis.  Bananas

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Phosphorus

Phosphorus and calcium management: what’s new

March 15, 2025March 15, 2025 Kelly Picard PhD RD

This month KDIGO published an executive conclusions paper on CKD-Mineral and Bone Disorder, covering management of calcium, phosphorus, PTH and vitamin D. So in today’s

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Hyperkalemia Assessments Potassium

Do potatoes cause hyperkalemia?

February 2, 2025March 8, 2025 Kelly Picard PhD RD

Hot off the press!  Or well, only a few short months off the press.  Today’s article comes from the November 2024 issue of the Journal

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Phosphorus RD Q&A

Is lecithin a phosphorus additive of concern?

January 25, 2025January 25, 2025 Kelly Picard PhD RD

Lecithin is one of the most common phosphorus based additives – even though it doesn’t have phosphorus in it’s name (more about that in my

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Potassium

Hyperkalemia, Heart Failure and Mortality

January 18, 2025January 18, 2025 Kelly Picard PhD RD

I recently gave a talk to dietitians in BC about Hyperkalemia in Heart Failure, which I was so happy to be invited to give. It

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Journal Club Potassium

Hyperkalemia in Heart Failure

December 22, 2024December 22, 2024 Kelly Picard PhD RD

As a renal dietitian, when I think about hyperkalemia, I think about adults living with kidney disease, but of course hyperkalemia is common in other

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Journal Club Phosphorus

Why managing hyperphosphatemia feels like pushing a stone uphill

December 14, 2024December 14, 2024 Kelly Picard PhD RD

It’s all things phosphorus these days. My survey about the phosphorus targets you use in practice is still live (and available here). Plus, I just

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Journal Club Phosphorus

Hyperphosphatemia?  Have you tried niacin?

December 12, 2024December 15, 2024 Kelly Picard PhD RD

Today’s article summarizes the findings from the September 2024 issue of the Journal of Renal Nutrition, which examines the impact of niacinamide on serum phosphate

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Journal Club Phosphorus

What Phosphate Levels Do You Target?

December 8, 2024December 8, 2024 Kelly Picard PhD RD

This article previously appeared in the Fall Newsletter of the Canadian Association of Nephrology Dietitians (CAND). I write a short section called Spotlight on Science.

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Journal Club Protein RD Q&A

Low eGFR in Athletes Series

December 2, 2024December 8, 2024 Kelly Picard PhD RD

I get a lot of questions about how to interpret low eGFR in athletes and why the eGFR might even be low in the first

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