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Helpful Resources for People With Chronic Kidney Disease and Their Caregivers

FOSRENOL^® | at hand Is Designed to Provide Assistance to Patients Taking FOSRENOL^®

Hyperphosphatemia may be a condition that requires long-term treatment. To help better understand the challenges of hyperphosphatemia, we offer some tools to help you. Simply select the exclusive offers you are interested in below and click Submit.

Download the Patient Pack: (zip file, 824K)

A resource to help patients control their phosphorus levels.

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A resource to help patients control their phosphorus levels.

Download a FOSRENOL^® Patient Pack that includes:

Patient Brochure—A Patient's Question & Answer Guide on Hyperphosphatemia and FOSRENOL^®.

AAKP Nutrition Counter—The 24-page American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) Nutrition Counter gives you an easy-to-use nutrition guide. The guide includes basic cooking ingredients, fresh fruits and vegetables, packaged foods, and fast food from national chains. Counts for potassium, sodium, phosphorus, protein, and calories are provided.

Dosing Tear Pad—A resource to help keep track of your dosing and progress with FOSRENOL^®.

Questions for Your Doctor—A list of sample questions you can ask at your next doctor's appointment. By reviewing these questions with your doctor, together you can decide on the treatment approach that works best for you.

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Order Kidney Friendly Cookbooks:
(Free—mailed to your physical address.)

	Order 2007 Cookbook
	Order 2006 Cookbook

Order your copy of Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods: Eating Well for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, Including Those with Diabetes.

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Order your copy of Kidney Friendly Comfort Foods: Eating Well for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients, Including Those with Diabetes. Fending off phosphorus doesn’t have to mean fending off flavor.

The cookbook features a section developed by a renal dietitian offering dietary tips for managing CKD Stage 5 and diabetes. The cookbook also features 21 delicious and easy-to-make low-phosphorus recipes including:

Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Monkey Bread
Chicken Pot Pie
Mediterranean Fish
Rice Pudding
Blackberry Shortcake

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Download the AAKP Nutrition Counter*: (zip file, 128K)

The 24-page American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) Nutrition Counter gives you an easy-to-use nutrition guide.
*Also available as part of the Patient Pack.

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The 24-page American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) Nutrition Counter gives you an easy-to-use nutrition guide. The guide includes basic cooking ingredients, fresh fruits and vegetables, packaged foods, and fast food from national chains. Counts for potassium, sodium, phosphorus, protein, and calories are provided.
*Also available as part of the Patient Pack.

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Important Safety Information

During clinical trials, the most common side effects of FOSRENOL^® were gastrointestinal, and included nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Nausea and vomiting generally lessened over time as patients continued with their treatment.

Patients who stopped treatment usually reported gastrointestinal side effects as the reason for stopping. Other side effects reported in trials included dialysis graft complications, headache, abdominal pain, and low blood pressure.

Although studies were not designed to detect differences in risk of bone fracture and mortality, there were no differences demonstrated in patients treated with FOSRENOL^® compared to alternative therapy for up to 3 years.

The duration of treatment exposure and time of observation in the clinical program were too short to conclude that FOSRENOL^® does not affect the risk of bone fracture or mortality beyond 3 years.

While lanthanum has been shown to accumulate in the GI tract, liver, and bone, in animals, the clinical significance in humans is unknown.

If you suffer from acute stomach ulcer, colon inflammation and colon ulcers, Crohn's disease, or bowel obstruction, it is important to know that patients with these conditions were not included in FOSRENOL^® clinical studies — please discuss with your doctor.

Don't take FOSRENOL^® if you are nursing or pregnant, or if you are under 18 years of age.

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FOS1726 1/15/2008