Approximately 400,000 people receive dialysis treatments each year and roughly 135,000 of those people are treated by Fresenius Medical Care. Unfortunately those people being treated face serious risks of heart attack and death and they don’t even know it. Recently the company recalled GranuFlo because of the number of dangerous and fatal events related to use of GranuFlo. The problem is that some doctors were administering the product at levels too high for the human body to handle, and that has led to over 900 deaths.

When GranuFlo is given in doses too high, it causes high bicarbonate in the body. This is incredibly dangerous and studies show that high bicarbonate levels increase the risk of heart attack by six times more than normal.