Medical researcher Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh from the Harold Simmons Center for Kidney Disease Research and Epidemiology reports that there is a 28% death risk for chronic kidney disease patients with significant fluid retention, whereas with the minimal fluid retention [between 0.5 and 1.0 kg], there was 26% higher survival chance
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Potential mechanisms include improvements in blood pressure, lipid profiles, body weight, inflammation, and endothelial function as well as direct cardioprotective effects on the cardiac muscle and vasculature [41]
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In human studies conducted to date, no increased risk of thyroid cancer has been established, but the warning remains in place given the rodent data and the fact that long-term human data is still accumulating