Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast

FF 87 Can Fish Oil Knock the Crap out of Dialysis Associated CV Disease?

December 14, 2025·1h 20m
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The FiltrateJoel Topf‍ ‍@kidneyboy.bsky.social‬ (COI)Swapnil Hiremath @hswapnil.medsky.social and on LinkedInPedro Teixeira @nephcrit.bsky.socialSpecial Guests Charmaine E Lok, MD Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of TorontoEditing and Show Notes byJoel TopfThe Kidney Connection written and performed by Tim YauShow NotesFish-Oil Supplementation and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis NEJM | NephJCWhat works in hemodialysis?Iron: PIVOTAL Trial (NEJM)Hemodiafiltration: CONVINCE (NEJM)That’s the whole listEarlier work on vascular access, The FISH Trial: Effect of fish oil supplementation on graft patency and cardiovascular events among patients with new synthetic arteriovenous hemodialysis grafts: a randomized controlled trial JAMAEskimo myth: "Fishing" for the origins of the "Eskimos and heart disease" story: facts or wishful thinking? (PubMed)Dialysis patients have low levels of fish oil in their body (PubMedCentral)Positive trial in non-dialysis patients: REDUCE-ITNegative trial of fish oil in non-dialysis patients: STRENGTHACC does not recommend FISH Oil for primary or secondary prevention of CV events (ACC)Poisson distribution (Wikipedia)Ocean Nutrition Canada (Wikipedia)Ocean Nutrition was bought by DSM (Press Release)DSM merged with Firmenich (<a target="_bla

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