Patients with heart failure often suffer from co-morbidities, which places a great strain on the health care services, a multinational study published in Heart reports. The researchers, who are based at Karolinska Institutet, ...
Feb 13, 2023
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Email has become an easy and essential form of communication between patients and physicians—so much so that doctors are deluged daily with messages from patients.
Feb 10, 2023
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Black and Hispanic adults on dialysis experience more staph bloodstream infections than white patients receiving the treatment for kidney failure, US health officials said Monday.
Feb 6, 2023
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A recent study from UiB shows that elevated plasma methylmalonic acid predicts increased risk of acute myocardial infarction and mortality in patients with suspected or verified coronary heart disease.
Feb 3, 2023
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An academic medical center in Charleston, South Carolina, has been able to significantly improve access to kidney transplants for African Americans by streamlining and standardizing the evaluation process, improving patient ...
Jan 26, 2023
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A cystatin C (cys)-based European Kidney Function Consortium (EKFC) equation has similar accuracy to the creatinine (cr)-based equation for estimating glomerular filtration rate (GFR), according to a study published in the ...
Jan 26, 2023
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Treating patients who possess transplant rejecting antibodies, using best available combinations of oral drugs, does not have an impact on transplant failure rates but it does improve medication adherence and reduce rejection ...
Jan 18, 2023
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The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers advice for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD). A synopsis published in Annals ...
Jan 9, 2023
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Moderately-to-severely reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) is associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), specifically among those with lower socioeconomic ...
Dec 22, 2022
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University of Galway, in collaboration with the NEPHSTROM Consortium, has announced promising results from a new cell therapy trial for people living with diabetes.
Dec 20, 2022
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