Health
What is chromium picolinate? Do you really need it?
Chromium picolinate is a supplement that many folks take, as it's touted to unlock insulin, burn fat and build muscle.
Jan 31, 2023
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News tagged with kidney damage
Medical research
Researchers solve an 80-year-old medical mystery that caused baby deaths
Researchers at the University of East Anglia have solved an 80-year-old medical mystery of the cause of kidney damage in children, which can be fatal in babies.
Jan 25, 2023
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Diabetes
Study reveals obesity-related trigger that can lead to diabetes
People who are overweight or obese have a significantly increased risk of developing diabetes, but exactly how that happens is not well understood.
Jan 11, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nomogram predicts upper urinary tract damage in pediatric neurogenic bladder
For children with neurogenic bladder (NB), a nomogram including five factors can predict the risk for upper urinary tract damage, according to a study published online Dec. 7 in Frontiers of Pediatrics.
Jan 5, 2023
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Cardiology
Refining how doctors assess hypertension risk
The team from Hudson Institute of Medical Research established that in around one in seven Australians with hypertension the cause was primary aldosteronism (PA), a condition which usually goes undiagnosed and untreated.
Dec 7, 2022
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Cardiology
Dapagliflozin reduces risk for hospitalization in patients with CKD with or without diabetes
Dapagliflozin, a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, reduced the risk for hospitalization for any cause in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) with and without type 2 diabetes. The findings suggest that ...
Dec 6, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cholinesterase inhibitors found to help Alzheimer's patients preserve kidney function
Researchers from the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (Eriksdotter group) in collaboration with the Departments of MEB (Carrero group) and Clintec (Bruchfeld group) at KI have recently had their study ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Medical research
Study finds that inducing hibernation-like state in mice can protect their organs during heart surgery
Researchers led by Hidetoshi Masumoto and Genshiro Sunagawa at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have developed a new method of protecting organs during heart and aortic surgery when blood circulation ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Medications
A potential therapy to reduce the side effects of chemotherapy
Cisplatin is a chemotherapy indicated to fight tumors in many types of cancer. However, it does have major side effects—especially kidney toxicity, that can lead to acute kidney failure.
Nov 15, 2022
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Cardiology
Popular fertility treatments linked to higher heart risks in women during delivery
A popular type of fertility treatment is associated with increased risk for serious cardiovascular complications in women at the time of delivery, longer hospital stays and higher hospitalization costs, new research finds.
Nov 10, 2022
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