Hypertension Fuels Chronic Kidney Disease
Renal Business Today – Phoenix,AZ,USA
Even more concerning, according to researchers, is evidence that more advanced stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD) are present once one surpasses the …

Cholesterol Drug Crestor, Linked to Muscle Damage and Kidney …
Attorney at Law – USA
Crestor, the potent anti-cholesterol drug by AztraZeneca Pharmaceuticals that has been blamed for causing severe muscle damage and kidney failure in some …

Novartis’s Afinitor May Be ’Mega-Blockbuster,’ Cancer Head Says
Bloomberg – USA
… patients with advanced kidney cancer who weren’t helped by Pfizer Inc.’s Sutent or Bayer AG’s Nexavar. The disease, also known as renal cell carcinoma, …

How cardiovascular and stroke risks relate
Southtown Star – Chicago,IL,USA
As a result, they have a greater rate of nonfatal stroke, fatal stroke, heart disease death and endstage kidney disease. High blood pressure also increases …

Proteinuria Varies in Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease Risk …
Modern Medicine – Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA
MONDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) — In children with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease, proteinuria may be associated with disease cause and race, …

Expanded criteria donors offer hope for patients needing kidney …
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants – New York,NY,USA
The National Kidney Foundation says that “rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the United States have increased by more than 20% over the [p]ast decade, …

Protein from peas may fight high blood pressure and kidney disease
Examiner.com – USA
The mixture was given with feed to a group of rats that had chronic kidney disease, while another group of rats received regular feed without the mixture. …

Dr. Kevin Koshy: Love your kidneys
The Salem News – Beverly,MA,USA
This is National Kidney Month. The hope is it will lead to activities designed to build kidney disease awareness and educate those at risk about the …

DaVita Raises Awareness on World Kidney Day
PR Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USA
In partnership with The Kidney TRUST(TM) — a nonprofit organization focused on fighting kidney disease — DaVita is launching their 4th Annual Kidney …

World Kidney Day improves awareness
WLFI.com – West Lafayette,IN,USA
March 12 is World Kidney Day and Clarian Arnett Health is joining efforts to raise awareness about chronic kidney disease. There are risk factors and …

World Kidney Day: Kidney Disease Survivors Alonzo Mourning & Sean …
Blackvoices – USA
After battling kidney disease for years, both men had to step away from their beloved sport to undergo kidney transplants. Now healthy, thriving and …

Specialist aware residents of kidney disease
Brownsville Herald – TX United States
Garcia has spent four years on dialysis after being diagnosed with end-stage kidney disease, and feels better now because he’s receiving proper treatment, …

Campaign highlights reducing kidney disease
San Angelo Standard Times – san angelo,tx,USA
This year, the campaign is highlighting the importance of high blood pressure as the key symptom and cause of chronic kidney disease. …

Chronic kidney disease unknown by most Americans because of lack …
LubbockOnline.com – Lubbock,TX,USA
One disease that appears to be off the radar for many Americans is chronic kidney disease or CKD. Most people feel fine because of lack of symptoms, …

Measuring Quality of Life in Patients with Hereditary Kidney Disease
Newswise (press release) – USA
Findings indicate that patients with this condition, (the most common form of hereditary kidney disease) need better tests to adequately measure quality of …

Daniels proclaims March as Kidney Month
Terre Haute Tribune Star – Terre Haute,IN,USA
Nearly 600000 Hoosiers suffer from chronic kidney disease, a condition in which their kidneys are not functioning properly. Most of these individuals don’t …

10 facts about diabetes and kidney disease in US-Latinos
La Prensa – Toledo,Ohio,USA
This increases their chances of developing serious complications such as chronic kidney disease 2 , heart disease and strokes. …

Nocturnal Hemodialysis Found Not to Improve Quality of Life
Renal and Urology News – New York,NY,USA
The investigators also evaluated the two groups using the Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form. Compared with CHD patients, NHD patients had …

The Merck Company Foundation Launches Five-Year Effort to Close …
MarketWatch (press release) – USA
African-Americans with diabetes are more likely to experience kidney disease and amputations of lower extremities (legs and feet). …

Diabetes in American Youth: High Rates in Those Under Age 20
HealthNewsDigest.com – New York,NY,USA
… which is a major risk factor for many long-term, serious complications including vision-threatening eye disease, kidney disease, and heart disease. …

March is National Kidney Month
UroToday – Berkeley,CA,USA
… 2009) are health awareness campaigns focusing on the importance of the kidneys and the reduction of the frequency and impact of kidney disease and its …

Hidden Phosphorus Food Additives Dangerous To Kidney Disease Patients
Science Daily (press release) – USA
20, 2009) — Advanced kidney disease patients have a list of foods they know to avoid because they naturally contain a high level of the mineral phosphorus, …

Chewing Gum Helps Treat Hyperphosphatemia In Kidney Disease Patients
Science Daily (press release) – USA
20, 2009) — Chewing gum made with a phosphate-binding ingredient can help treat high phosphate levels in dialysis patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) …

Kidney disease affects response to blood thinner
NephrOnline – Scottsdale,AZ,USA
“The information in our study may help doctors customize warfarin management in patients with kidney failure and lower the risk of complications,” said …

Why Use of Home-Based Dialysis Lags
Renal and Urology News – New York,NY,USA
There needs to be a lot of education done with primary-care doctors to start sending patients to nephrologists at late stage-3 kidney disease, …

Drinking Soda Pop Doubles Risk of Kidney Disease
Natural News.com – Phoenix,AZ,USA
But, especially if you are a woman, you could be setting yourself up for kidney disease. Researchers from Loyola University Health System say they’ve found …

Dietary Aid Helps Kidney Patients Stay Safe
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
10 (HealthDay News) — Too much dietary intake of phosphorus can be dangerous for people with kidney disease, but a new educational aid helps patients …

Fluoridation Ineffective & Harmful, studies show
Cherry Hill Courier Post – Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
… the National Kidney Foundation dropped its fluoridation support replacing it with this caution: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be …

Fast food could harm kidney patients
NDTV.com – New Delhi,India
People with advanced kidney disease should avoid fast and processed food that contains phosphorus additives. High blood levels of phosphorus can lead to …

Task Force Alerting Nevadans to ‘Silent’ Killer Disease Crisis
SYS-CON Media – Montvale,NJ,USA
17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which affects 20 million people, is now the ninth leading cause of death in the US and it is …

Should you keep taking that multivitamin?
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
However, they weren’t any more likely to ward off a diagnosis of breast, ovarian, lung, stomach, bladder, kidney, colorectal or endometrial cancer compared …

Women who drink lots of soda at higher risk for early kidney disease
PhysOrg.com – Evergreen,VA,USA
Women who drink two or more cans of soda pop per day are nearly twice as likely to show early signs of kidney disease, a recent study has found. …

More Psychiatric Disorders in Teens Who Get Kidney Transplant
MedPage Today – Little Falls,NJ,USA
Note that previous research has been inconclusive as to whether kids with chronic kidney disease see improvements in psychological and social function after …

Simple algorithm predicts chronic kidney disease
Cortlandt Forum – New York,NY,USA
A new eight-factor algorithm helps predict which patients are most likely to develop chronic kidney disease (CKD) within a decade. The model is designed for …

Kidney Function Test May Not Be Cost-Effective
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
Among 10000 people, eGFR reporting would have led to an average of 13 fewer deaths and 29 fewer cases of end-stage kidney disease than serum creatinine …

Blood and urine protein predicts CKD progression
NephrOnline – Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Measuring a small protein in the blood and urine can predict which patients with non-advanced chronic kidney disease will progress to a more serious form of …
Potential New Target For Hypertension Treatment Discovered
Science Daily (press release) – USA
Some people only learn that they have HBP after it causes health problems, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, or kidney failure. …

Study: Blood Pressure Predicts Heart Disease
Ivanhoe – Winter Park,FL,USA
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — An inexpensive and non-invasive test can effectively indicate which kidney disease patients are at an increased risk of developing …

Study: Kidney donors do well over long term
FierceHealthcare – Washington,DC,USA
… are required to be healthy, have no kidney problems, and have no issues with high blood pressure or diabetes, both big contributors to kidney disease.

‘Haufen’ Might Help Diagnose Viral Kidney Disease Polyomavirus …
Modern Medicine – Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA
Haufen — which is German for “cluster” — were detected in samples from all 21 patients with BKN in early and late stages of the disease, the researchers …

Study Identifies Gender Bias in Kidney Transplants
HealthNews – Carslbad,CA,USA
Because of a shortage in donor organs, many Americans with chronic kidney disease wait years for a transplant, and some die before ever making it to the …

New Equation Provides Accurate Estimate of Pediatric Renal Function
MedPage Today – Little Falls,NJ,USA
So they set out to develop a more accurate formula using baseline data from 349 children ages one to 16 who were enrolled in the Chronic Kidney Disease in …

New form of intravenous iron treats anemia in chronic kidney …
EurekAlert (press release) – Washington,DC,USA
… rapid administration of large doses, has been shown to be effective for treating iron deficiency in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients on dialysis, …