Eating fish cuts diabetic kidney disease
United Press International - USA
4 (UPI) — Eating fish twice a week may reduce the risk of kidney disease in diabetics, British researchers say. The study of 22000 adults, including 517 …

Laila Ali to “Kiss Diabetes Goodbye” During November’s American …
MarketWatch - USA
Diabetes is the leading cause of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, and amputation, yet one-fourth of people who have diabetes don’t even …

New Data Reveal People with Chronic Diseases are Unaware of Their …
MarketWatch - USA
For example, patients with diabetes are at risk for cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, blindness, and amputation if they do not maintain control of …

10 things you should know if you have diabetes
SheKnows.com - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Poor circulation puts you at risk for infections, heart problems, stroke, blindness, foot or leg amputation, kidney disease and sexual problems. …

BioTrends Releases TreatmentTrends(TM): Nephrology and Renal …
MarketWatch - USA
In patients with Chronic Kidney Disease not on dialysis (CKD), 73% of Nephrologists prefer to start with calcium-based binders. In the PTH modifier market, …

New American Diabetes Association Survey Sheds Light on the Need …
MarketWatch - USA
People with diabetes are also at risk for developing other serious complications such kidney disease, blindness, and amputation, yet one-fourth of people …

CKD patients more likely to die from heart disease than to develop …
NephrOnline - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Rates of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the United States have increased by more than 20% over the last decade, causing loss of life and sky-rocketing …

Risk of Kidney Failure Higher Among African Americans with Lupus …
Newswise (press release) - USA
The US Renal Datasystem includes data on approximately 94 percent of all US patients with kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease. …

Be Well: For good health, go with the (blood) flow
Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
Because hypertension leads to stiffening and thickening of the arteries, and that leads to atherosclerosis, strokes, heart disease and kidney disease. …

Larger Labs Report Kidney Function Routinely
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
“We are encouraged to find that many labs are routinely reporting eGFR, allowing earlier diagnosis and treatment of kidney disease,” …

Chronic Kidney Disease Increased Sharply In The United States In …
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (Oct. 8, 2008) — A 30 percent increase in chronic kidney disease over the past decade has prompted the US Renal Data System (USRDS) to issue …

Dialysis patients ‘to double in 10 years’
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Marion Higgins, a member of the NKF who also suffers from kidney disease, said: “People don’t really understand the impact kidney disease has on your …

People with diabetes lose more than money
News-Medical.net - Sydney, Australia
Kidney failure is the final stage of chronic kidney disease (CKD)” explains Prof Kant. “Will you be surprised to learn that diabetes is the most common

Fluoride in Tap Water is Hazardous to Health, research shows
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
… citing the NRC report, withdrew its support of fluoridation and replaced it with this warning: “Individuals with CKD [Chronic Kidney Disease] should be …

DaVita Diet Helper at DaVita.com Assists More Than 6000 Kidney …
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
DaVita Diet Helper recently registered its 6000th user with later-stage kidney disease and the number is still growing. The online tool is an interactive …

Statins and ACE inhibitors in adolescents with diabetes
Nursing in Practice - London,England,UK
Statins and ACE inhibitors have been shown to help reduce the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease in adults with diabetes, but the Adolescent Type 1 …

Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease on Darbepoetin Therapy Do Not …
DG News - USA
[Presentation title: Population Pharmacokinetics of Darbepoetin Alfa in Peritoneal Dialysis and Non-Dialysis Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease After …

Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes is crucial
New Europe - Brussels,Belgium
… cause of blindness and visual disability, kidney failure, heart disease, neuropathy and diabetic foot disease, which can lead to foot or leg amputation. …

Sept. 14-20 named PKD awareness week
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
14-20 as National Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week. Hatch said that while it is not well known, the disease afflicts 600000 Americans and 12 million …

Newly Found Gene Variants Account For Kidney Diseases Among …
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The researchers studied nondiabetic kidney diseases that can lead to chronic kidney disease and, in severe cases, to kidney failure requiring long-term …

Kidney disease increases risk of complications
Reuters - USA
By Karla Gale NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic kidney disease puts hospitalized patients at increased risk for adverse events related to potential lapses …

DaVita Prepares Florida Dialysis Patients for Hurricane Ike
MarketWatch - USA
For additional information please visit DaVita.com for material including articles on Emergency preparedness for people with kidney disease and Preparing …

Hospitalized Patients With CKD Are At Increased Risk Of Being …
Science Daily (press release) - USA
4, 2008) — Hospitalized patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at higher risk for adverse consequences of medical care compared with those without …

Hydrating Kidney Patients With Sodium Bicarb Has Little Effect
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
3 (HealthDay News) — Hydrating kidney disease patients with sodium bicarbonate during coronary angiography is no more effective in reducing the risk of …

N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP …
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Natriuretic peptides have emerged as valuable biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in the general population and in patients with cardiac and kidney disease …

Inexpensive drug improves kidney function in diabetics
NephrOnline - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Pentoxifylline, a drug used to treat patients with circulation problems, may also benefit those with kidney disease caused by diabetes and other conditions. …

Blood pressure pill works well in kids, study shows
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Hypertension is rare in young children, typically caused by underlying kidney disease or other secondary causes. The current study provides the first …

Life on Dialysis: A Treatment Option for Kidney Failure
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
But the new kidney didn’t take. “I don’t know the donor of that. Unfortunately, he had a disease I didn’t have and he contracted it and I nearly died from …

Damaged kidneys won’t filter toxins out of bloodstream
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Experts estimate 10 to 20 million people have kidney disease but don’t know it. Millions of people have only half their normal kidney function but have no …

Check Young Kidney Patients’ Hearts
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory, NC, USA
A Beaumont Hospitals researcher is urging heart screenings for young and middle-aged people with chronic kidney disease, based on his research among more …

Teens with diabetes: Not defined by disease
USA Today - USA
Long-term problems, such as blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage, occur when a type 1 diabetic has prolonged hyperglycemia. …

Kidney Disease
Canada.com - Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
People with kidney failure need to receive dialysis or a kidney transplant. The most common causes of kidney disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, …

A tablet a day may cast dialysis away
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Mr Alexander feels lucky his kidney disease, caused by diabetes diagnosed almost 30 years ago, has not advanced to the stage where he is required to have …

DaVita Dialysis honored for patient care
Yuma Sun - Yuma, AZ, USA
They are also the leading causes of chronic kidney disease. ESRD occurs when chronic kidney disease progresses from the kidneys functioning at 60 percent or …

Kidney disease can be treated
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
The presence of microalbuminuria predicts future development of proteinuria, which ultimately predicts end stage kidney disease. …

Tiny pump which could boost kidney patients’ lives
Daily Mail - UK
Around four in every 1000 people in Britain will develop kidney disease at some point in their life. Some will respond to treatment with a cocktail of drugs …

Kidney Disease Poses a Big Challenge, but Dialysis Gives Me Hope …
Washington Post - United States
An estimated 26 million American adults live with kidney disease, according to a study last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association. …