All Episodes

December 14, 2025 80 mins

The Filtrate

Joel Topf‍ ‍@kidneyboy.bsky.social‬ (COI)

Swapnil Hiremath @hswapnil.medsky.social and on LinkedIn

Pedro Teixeira @nephcrit.bsky.social

Special Guests

Charmaine E Lok, MD Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Editing and Show Notes by

Joel Topf

The Kidney Connection written and performed by Tim Yau

Show Notes

Fish-Oil Supplementation and Cardiovascular Events in Patients Receiving Hemodialysis NEJM | NephJC

What works in hemodialysis?

Iron: PIVOTAL Trial (NEJM)

Hemodiafiltration: CONVINCE (NEJM)

That’s the whole list

Earlier 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 JAMA

Eskimo 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-IT

Negative trial of fish oil in non-dialysis patients: STRENGTH

ACC 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 (.css-j9qmi7{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:2.8rem;width:100%;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:start;justify-content:start;padding-left:5rem;}@media only screen and (max-width: 599px){.css-j9qmi7{padding-left:0;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;}}.css-j9qmi7 svg{fill:#27292D;}.css-j9qmi7 .eagfbvw0{-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:#27292D;}


Advertise With Us

Popular Podcasts

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC

Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

Stuff You Should Know

Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

The Bobby Bones Show

The Bobby Bones Show

Listen to 'The Bobby Bones Show' by downloading the daily full replay.

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2026 iHeartMedia, Inc.