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Dietary nitrate supplementation in CKD pregnancy — NephJC

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A kidney journal club is discussing dietary nitrate, the compound in beetroot juice, for pregnant women with chronic kidney disease. Pregnancy is risky here: in stages 3 to 5, about 46 out of 100 women lose more than a quarter of their kidney function, or need dialysis, within a year of giving birth. Those numbers have not improved in twenty years. The post shown here gives only the background for the study, and reports no results.

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Page · Forager · 2026-08-26
https://www.nephjc.com/news/orchard-beet