Alireza Rafieipoor, Mahdie Torkaman, Fatemeh Azaryan, Aryan Tavakoli, Mohammad Keshavarz Mohammadian, Atefeh Kohansal, Hanieh Shafaei, Pouya Mirzaee, Zeinab Motiee Bijarpasi, Parsa Bahmani, Masoud Khosravi, Saeid Doaei, Maryam Gholamalizadeh
BACKGROUND: Patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) frequently experience the chronic kidney disease-associated pruritus (CKD-aP). OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of omega-3 supplementation in the management of CKD-aP in patients undergoing hemodialysis. METHODS: In this triple blind, randomized clinical trial, the effect of the omega-3 supplement on uremic CKD-aP was assessed in 112 chronic hemodialysis patients at Caspian Hemodialysis Center in Rasht, Iran...
2024: Frontiers in Nutrition