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• Poor kidney function may increase heart attack risk (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 8 (ANI): Poor kidney function may increase an individual’s risk for suffering heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease and early death, reveals a new study.Researchers revealed that to evaluate heart health, clinicians should look at their patients’ current level of kidney function ...
  3 days ago

• Being skinny is dangerous for dialysis patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Washington, Nov 1 (ANI): A new study has shown that dialysis patients with low body fat are at increased risk of death.“Our study indicates that body fat may be protective in dialysis patients. The results add to the increasing number of reports about the ‘obesity paradox’ or ‘reverse epidemiology’ in ...
  1 week ago

• Women with chronic kidney disease more likely than men to go undiagnosed

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  Woman are at particular risk of their primary care physicians delaying diagnosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrologys 42nd A
  1 week ago

• For dialysis patients, skinny is dangerous

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  Dialysis patients with low body fat are at increased risk of death -- even compared to patients at the highest level of body fat percentage, according to research being presented at the American So
  1 week ago

• Obesity and Kidney Health

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 544
  Two recent studies, one from Britain and one from Japan, report a correlation between obesity and chronic kidney disease (CKD). The British report is accompanied by an editorial comment that more than a billion people worldwide suffer from overweight and obesity . There has been a sharp rise in both obesity and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Heart test found safe for pre-transplant kidney patients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, Oct 19 (IANS) A test that screens whether a patient’s heart is healthy enough for a kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, a new study reveals.It indicates that the test, called coronary angiography, does not cause a decline in kidney function for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diabetes and Kidney Damage

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Research results indicate that Diabetes is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease. Final stage of kidney disease is kidney failure and is known as nephropathy. According to the Centers for disease Control, over 17 million Americans have diabetes. Unfortunately, one third of them do not even realise that they ...
  3 weeks ago

• Heart test found safe for pre-transplant kidney patients

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 616
  A screening test that measures whether a patients heart is healthy enough for a kidney transplant is not as dangerous as once thought, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN).
  3 weeks ago

• Helping kidneys go the distance

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 158
  Chronic kidney disease is a gradual decrease in the kidneys ability to filter waste and excess water from the blood.
  4 weeks ago

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