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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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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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People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before 40 years of age, have nearly four times the risk of death compared with the general U.K. population, a new study carried out at the University of Oxford's Radcliffe Department ...
Oct 24, 2024
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Patients with comorbid diabetes have an elevated risk for lower extremity amputation (LEA) at all stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) compared with patients without diabetes, according to a study published online in the ...
Oct 21, 2024
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Dialysis patients experience a range of physical and mental symptoms that interact and influence one another. In her doctoral research, psychologist Judith Tommel wants to find the optimum approach to help these dialysis ...
Oct 15, 2024
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday finalized a rule that will require the removal of all lead pipes from the country's water systems.
Oct 8, 2024
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Two public health researchers at New Mexico State University are collaborating on a series of studies to understand the long-term impacts of food insecurity among American adults living with chronic diseases.
Oct 8, 2024
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