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When is screening for renal artery stenosis medically necessary?
The Virtual Medical Centre – Perth,Australia
The patient has a chronic kidney disease that’s not explained by diabetes, volume depletion or some form of vascular disease. This approach excludes routine …

Lifestyle Rx: The American diet is defined by ‘excess’
Enterprise-Record – Chico,CA,USA
This is many times more than is actually needed and contributes prominently to high blood pressure, heart failure and kidney disease. Fat. …

Your health: Fishy guard against kidney ailments
New Straits Times – Persekutuan,Malaysia
Taking at least two portions of fish a week could help protect diabetics from the dangers of kidney disease. In the November issue of the American Journal …

Born With A Statin Deficiency? Line Forms To The Left!
NewsBlaze – Folsom,CA,USA
… death-along with warnings to the physician about Crestor use in Asian patients, people with severe kidney disease and patients taking cyclosporine? …

Experts: Key to health is glucose control
Examiner.com – USA
Boulder endocrinologist Melvin Stjernholm says Crossen has no secondary complications common to diabetics, such as kidney disease, neuropathy or retinopathy …

Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Help Prevent Painful Kidney Stones
Media Newswire (press release) – New York,NY,USA
Kidney stones are more common in adult men than any other population group; however, doctors have seen a disturbing increase in kidney stone disease both …

Thiamine can invert the development of early diabetic kidney …
HealthJockey.com – Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Type 2 diabetic patients are prone to kidney diseases or diabetic nephropathy. Early development of kidney disease is detected by the high excretion rate of …

Diabetes Drug Well-Tolerated in Kidney Disease Phase I trial shows …
Drug Topics Magazine – Woodcliff Lake,NJ,USA
Compared with healthy controls and patients with non-proteinuric stage 2 chronic kidney disease, FSGS patients had a 40 to 50 percent lower area under the …

High Phosphorus Linked to Coronary Calcification in CKD
Renal Business Today – Phoenix,AZ,USA
Patients with CKD have loss of kidney function that, in many cases, progresses to end-stage renal disease. Detected by a special computed tomography (CT) …

Kidney stones linked to greater chance of CKD
American Medical News (subscription) – USA
Patients who develop kidney stones are more likely to develop chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. “Kidney stones are not a traditionally …

Cheap food may bring next health crisis
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
A 2008 federal study reports that the prevalence of chronic kidney disease in the United States has increased from 20 percent to 25 percent in the past …

Your Smile May Offer Heart Health Clues
Tampa Tribune – Tampa,FL,USA
Gum disease might be an early warning, with poor oral health linked to diabetes, kidney disease, preterm labor, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s disease and cancer …

Kidney Injury Increases Risk Of Serious Kidney Disease
InjuryBoard.com – Tampa,FL,USA
Research now shows that people who have suffered AKI have a higher risk later in life of getting the most serious form of chronic kidney disease (CKD), …