Calcium-enriched bread for treatment of uremic hyperphosphatemia.

Objective: To assess phosphate-binding efficacy of a new food product, bread with unusually high calcium content (Ca-bread).

Design And Setting: A randomized parallel group trial in the university hospital outpatient dialysis unit.

Patients: Fifty-three randomly selected uremic patients who met the following inclusion criteria: (1) required maintenance hemodialysis treatment, (2) were not to receive vitamin D throughout the study, (3) were nondiabetic, and (4) were diagnosed with hyperphosphatemia.