Effects of a restricted water intake on various clinical and laboratory outcomes in patients with heart failure: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

CONCLUSIONS: In patients with heart failure, liberal fluid consumption does not seem to exert an unfavorable impact on heart failure rehospitalizations or all-cause mortality. Considering the heterogeneity of the included studies and their quite exiguous sample sizes, larger randomized controlled trials would be warranted in the future in order to achieve definitive confirmation of the present findings. These findings substantially disavow any useful role of water intake restriction as a non-pharmacological measure to be adopted in heart failure management. PMID: 32083427 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Minerva Cardioangiologica - Category: Cardiology Tags: Minerva Cardioangiol Source Type: research