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 …

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 …

Hardworking kidneys deserve good treatment
The Durango Herald
Chronic kidney disease is among the leading causes of chronic illness in the United States. Death rates from chronic kidney disease in the United States …

Overnight dialysis is considered for patients
News Chief
… improve not only the quality but the cost of caring for end-stage kidney-disease patients – more than $60000 a year for each patient on hemodialysis. …

Kidney doctors concerned by Medicare financing
USA Today
Some of the many questions facing the care of kidney disease patients would require action by Congress, but other improvements could be achieved without any …

Top Ten Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease
EmpowHer
Kidney failure, requiring dialysis or transplant, can often be prevented with early detection and treatment of chronic kidney disease. …

DIY dialysis: Home treatment returns kidney disease patients to …
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Of the 22 million Americans now with some form of kidney disease, about 390000 are sick enough to require dialysis to survive. In hemodialysis, the most …

At-home dialysis touted as the next best thing
Globe and Mail
21, 2009 10:20AM EDT Patients with life-threatening kidney disease who are treated with home dialysis have survival rates that are comparable to those who …

Dialysis treatment in USA: High costs, high death rates
USA Today
… and it needs the best justification imaginable that more dialysis would be better,” says Eggers, the kidney disease institute epidemiologist. …

Mutation in Renin Gene Linked to Inherited Kidney Disease
HealthNewsDigest.com
A genetic mutation in the gene that encodes renin was first identified as the cause of an hereditary kidney disease by a research group led by Stanislav …

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, …

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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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 …

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, …