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On a sweltering afternoon in July 2020, Belinda Ramones got a call that her brother was in the hospital. The call was from a woman at the Florida landscaping business that he had joined that week, the Davey Tree Expert Co., ...
Nov 5, 2024
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) cases and deaths in women surged worldwide between 1990 and 2021, according to a study presented at Kidney Week, the annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, held from Oct. 23 to ...
Nov 1, 2024
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Boys and men carry a greater risk for acute kidney injury (AKI) than women and girls across all age groups, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Nov 1, 2024
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The hepatitis E virus affects the liver. But infected liver cells secrete a viral protein that reacts with antibodies in the blood and may form complexes that can damage the filter structure of the kidneys, as researchers ...
Oct 31, 2024
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In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found no way to effectively ...
Oct 31, 2024
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Introducing tougher restrictions on sodium levels for packaged food could prevent thousands of deaths and save billions of dollars in health spending in Australia alone, a new study shows.
Oct 31, 2024
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To Alex Hughes, Assistant Professor in Bioengineering within Penn Engineering and in Cell and Developmental Biology within Penn Medicine, the kidney is a work of art. "I find the development of the kidney to be a really beautiful ...
Oct 29, 2024
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A study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators has revealed a significant genetic risk factor for kidney disease in people from Ghana and Nigeria. Their study demonstrated that having ...
Oct 28, 2024
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For children with vesicoureteral reflux, recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) are associated with a decrease in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), according to a research letter published online Oct. 24 in ...
Oct 28, 2024
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A recent analysis reveals that the number of chronic kidney disease (CKD) cases in women around the globe nearly tripled in the past three decades. Also, type 2 diabetes and hypertension were the leading causes of CKD-related ...
Oct 25, 2024
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