NDT Plus Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
NDT Plus 2008 1(3):190-192; doi:10.1093/ndtplus/sfn020
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Investigation of the association between oral sodium phosphate use and kidney injury
1 Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension, Department of Medicine
2 Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine
3 Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine
4 Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia, PA, USA
Correspondence: E-mail: steven.brunelli@uphs.upenn.edu
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Sir,
Recently we published a report in which we found no apparent association between oral sodium phosphate (OSP) purgative use and incident chronic kidney disease (CKD): OR (95% CI) 0.70 (0.44–1.11) [1]. Published concurrently with our study was another study by Hurst [2] that reported a