More Awesome News for us CKD patients; ARBs cause cancer. :(

[Marvin8]

medpagetoday.com/cardiology...

[FThomp]

Sad, but it does appear that this imply applies to higher doses and even then there are conflicting studies apparently. Supposedly the carcinogen risk came from the fact there were batches contaminated with NDMA?

The article said if 8,000 people took the highest valsartan dose (320 mg) containing N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) contamination from the recalled batches daily for 4 years, there may be one additional case of cancer over their lifetimes.

I’d say us people on a normal dose of arbs are probably fine though. But yes, if you are on an extremely high dose of arbs and it happens to be one of the tainted recall batches somehow, you might be running a higher risk.

My bigger concern is the risk of cancer associated with anti rejection meds for transplants :/. Here’s to hoping artificial kidney makes it to market at some point so those meds aren’t needed