10-Year Trial Finds Diet-Based Approach May Help Kidney Disease Patients
What Happened
A clinical trial followed 108 adults with stage 3 chronic kidney disease and metabolic acidosis for 10 years. Participants received either fruits and vegetables designed to reduce dietary acid, oral sodium bicarbonate, or usual care. The fruit-and-vegetable group recorded 14 hospitalisations versus 64 with usual care, 20 emergency visits versus 88, and four patients progressed to dialysis versus 16. Sodium bicarbonate did not show a difference from usual care on these outcomes.
Key Takeaways
The findings suggest dietary acid reduction with fruits and vegetables may deliver better long-term outcomes than sodium bicarbonate for this specific group of CKD patients. However, the results are being presented at ASN Kidney Week 2026, so this report describes conference findings rather than a published study cited on the page.