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), …

New Drug Being Tested To Reverse Kidney Damage
KSAT.com – San Antonio,TX,USA
Researchers are looking for more participants who have kidney disease and are at risk of undergoing dialysis treatment, but have not yet received the …

Chronic Diseases Drive Health Care Costs
RedOrbit – Dallas,TX,USA
A recent report published by the World Economic Forum identified chronic disease as a phenomenon as threatening as global warming, terrorism, …

Climate Change Means More Kidney Stones
Wired News – USA
“But this is a case of an environmentally sensitive disease process.” About 12% of men and 7% of women in the United States experience kidney stones during …

Keeping your kidneys healthy
Canada.com – Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Diabetes and high blood pressure are 2 of the leading causes of kidney disease. If you have diabetes, you can reduce your risk of kidney damage by managing …