Type 1 diabetes affects every aspect of daily life
USA Today
Untreated hyperglycemia, when blood sugar runs too high, can lead to long-term problems over the years, including kidney disease, blindness and limb …
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Treating anaemia in patients with kidney disease
The Virtual Medical Centre
In light of recent findings that an anaemia-fighting drug doubles the risk of stroke in patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) without …

Control kidney disease through diet
Times of India
Although chronic kidney disease has silently afflicted a large number of Indians, a strictly regimented diet and lifestyle can ease the disease burden. …

Living the sweet life
Malaysia Star
… diabetes or pre-diabetes are often told about the long-term complications – heart attack and stroke, blindness, kidney disease, and limb amputations. …

Severe Kidney Disease Needs Complex Management Case vignette describes …
ModernMedicine
6 (HealthDay News) — Aggressive management is required for patients with stage IV chronic kidney disease, according to an article in the Jan. …

Pharmacists Improve Care of Diabetics While Cutting Costs, Research Shows
Science Daily (press release)
Higher A1Cs indicate that a patient is at higher risk for developing long-term complications associated with diabetes, such as kidney disease or vision …

Losing weight may help preserve kidney function: a video Health Tip
Plain Dealer
By Robert Higgs, The Plain Dealer Video: Dr. Sankar Navaneethan of the Cleveland Clinic discusses potential benefits that obese people with kidney disease …

Prognosis: Numbers Rise in a Diabetes Forecast
New York Times
As affected people live longer, they will have more opportunities to develop complications, including end-stage kidney disease, amputations and blindness, …

Dramatic Surge in Diabetes Expected by 2034
HealthNews
… damaging nerves and blood vessels and leading to complications, such as heart disease, end-stage kidney disease, stroke, blindness, and amputation. …

Better health, take charge: Basic lifestyle changes can fend off hypertension
Memphis Commercial Appeal
If you have diabetes or heart or kidney disease, you should get your pressure checked more often. Get off the couch. Control your weight and exercise. …

Why should we Stop Diabetes?
Louisville Courier-Journal
Every day, nearly 200 people with diabetes have parts of their leg amputated because of diabetic neuropathy, 120 people enter end-stage kidney disease …

Advance warning for kidney sufferers
South Devon Herald Express
The hospital say those suffering from Lupus have a higher risk of heart and kidney disease. When kidney problems are detected it is often irreversible, …












Foodborne disease can cause kidney failure, paralysis
Food Consumer
… in children in the US HUS can lead to death, or permanent health problems such as end-stage kidney disease, neurological complications and diabetes. …

Prevent kidney disease by saying no to diet sodas and excess salt
Natural News.com (registration)
(NaturalNews) According to the American Society of Nephrology (ASN), the number of people in the US diagnosed with kidney disease has doubled over the past …

Surgery Not Always Best for Narrowed Kidney Arteries
U.S. News & World Report
“In asymptomatic people with chronic kidney disease — people with severe hypertension — there is no benefit from subjecting them to a risky procedure of …

Bike tour raises money, awareness of kidney disease
Muskegon Chronicle – MLive.com
The Tour DaVita is a 250-mile bike ride aimed at raising funds and awareness for kidney disease. WEST MICHIGAN — Dietitian Jill Rosekrans-Gawne said she has …

Many on debilitating dialysis not told about transplantation option
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Dialysis does not cure kidney disease, which afflicts about 26 million Americans. Sign up for PghScience, the Pittsburgh Trib’s free weekly e-mail …

Experts: Crucial to get on waiting list as soon as possible
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Even though he was diagnosed with kidney disease five years ago, it wasn’t until two months ago that Cannon completed the required evaluation to be listed. …

Sleep Problems Common in Non-dialysis-dependent Children with …
Zikkir World (blog)
Sleep disorders are a common and under-recognized problem for children and adolescents with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease (CKD), …

Vitamin D deficiency can be dangerous to your health
Clinton Herald
Patients with chronic kidney disease are especially susceptible due to the inability to convert Vitamin D to an active form, leading to Vitamin D deficiency …

Kidney Function: A Few Important Things You Should Know
LongIslandPress.com
The doctor’s recommendations and treatment plan can help a patient to slow the progression of kidney disease as much as possible. …

Could you be at risk for diabetes?
WREX-TV
Diabetes can lead to serious problems, such as kidney failure, blindness and heart disease. Some of these problems can be prevented, but only if the disease …

Electronic Nose Can Sniff Out Kidney Diseases and Lung Cancer
DOTmed.com (press release)
Of these, the team identified the five most important compounds that signal the development of kidney disease. The idea to use the electronic nose to test …

Immunoglobulin Can Predict Some Diabetic Complications
U.S. News & World Report
… urine at the start of the study were about three times more likely to suffer cardiovascular-related death or to progress to end-stage kidney disease. …

For Some Kidney Patients, Home Dialysis Is Better
MSN Health & Fitness
1, 2010, patients with chronic kidney disease must be counseled about their treatment options. This provision is intended to give patients an opportunity to …

Fresh-Meat Additives May Be Dangerous for Kidney Patients
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
THURSDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Additives used to “enhance” uncooked meat and poultry can pose serious health risks for people with kidney disease, …

Lab Test Predicts Acute Kidney Injury in ICU Patients
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
Another study in the journal showed the promise of this new test, as urine NGAL can help diagnose HIV-related kidney disease in African-Americans and black …

Prehypertension, Obesity And Kidney Disease Risks
Science Daily (press release) – USA
sciencedaily (July 21, 2009) — People with prehypertension are not at increased risk of kidney disease if their body mass index (BMI) is under 30.0 kg/m2, …

Diabetic teenagers in early intervention drugs trial
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Four in 10 will have severe kidney disease by the age of 50. The medications have been approved in Australia for use in children but not for the prevention …

EHR Aids Management of Chronic Disease
MedPage Today – Little Falls,NJ,USA
So the researchers conducted a longitudinal study of 10000 members of Kaiser Permanente Hawaii with chronic kidney disease. They looked at time periods …

Effects of fluoridated water on arthritis, hypothyroidism, kidney …
Examiner.com – USA
Here are just some of the potential health threats from fluoride in our diets and our water: arthritis, skeletal fluorosis, thyroid dysfunction, and kidney …

New Approach To Screening For Serious Kidney Disease
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
The combination of two common medical tests can improve a doctor’s ability to predict which patients will develop serious kidney disease, a research team …

Even modest weight gain raises risk of chronic kidney disease
Chiropractic Economics – Ponte Vedra Beach,FL,USA
… relatively small weight gain can adversely affect glomerular filtration rate, an indicator of chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a report by …

Blood pressure drugs slow eye problems in diabetes
Reuters – USA
Kidney disease known as diabetic neuropathy causes at least 45 percent of kidney failures in the United States. Diabetes is also the main cause of acquired …

Drugs May Not Slow Kidney Damage in Diabetes
U.S. News & World Report – Washington,DC,USA
“They are commonly used for people who already have signs of kidney disease,” he said. “They have been shown to have more effective blood pressure effects …
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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 …