The long forgotten salt factor and the benefits of using a 5-g-salt-restricted diet in all ESRD patients

Writing about older concepts of therapy in medicine often provoke an automatic negative response based on assumptions that they are dinosaurian and empirical and consequently unlikely to impact upon modern therapeutic paradigms unless supported by randomized controlled studies. However, occasionally, new ideas resuscitate these forgotten paradigms and allow one to make progress from observational studies without the benefit of evidence-based