Do you plan to incorporate fish-oil supplementation into the care of hemodialysis patients to reduce cardiovascular events in light of the PISCES trial results?
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Nephrology · Rush Medical College
I showed the paper to an Internal Medicine friend of mine who is more statistically savvy than me.
He wrote this:
"So I read the study, and I’m still at a loss to understand it. I’m pretty Bayesian, but this study breaks my priors. Prior studies were basically negative, not to mention that nothing e...
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Nephrology · University Of California San Francisco Medical Center At Parnassus
Not yet. I like to see more data. I believe the fish oil trials in cardiovascular population have not had positive results in the general population. I don't believe ESRD patient follow different rules than the rest of us.