Liraglutide-treated patients were 22% less likely than placebo recipients to experience a composite outcome of renal events.
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In a study of African Americans with hypertension-related CKD, metoprolol, but neither ramipril nor amlodipine, increased serum uric acid levels.
No significant association found between marijuana use and change in estimated glomerular filtration rate or development of albuminuria.
Bosutinib treatment was associated with a 66% decrease in the annual rate of kidney enlargement.
Stage G3b-5 chronic kidney disease independently predicted a nearly 2-fold increased risk recurrence and 3-fold increased risk of progression following transurethral resection.
International survey finds geographic variation in the subtype frequencies in biopsied patients.
Atrial fibrillation risk increases as estimated glomerular filtration rate decreases and albuminuria increases, according to a new meta-analysis.
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The incidence of stroke has declined in recent years, but only in men.
Researchers studied stroke incidence in four periods from 1993 to 2010 in five counties in Ohio and Kentucky. There were 7,710 strokes all together, 57.2 percent of them in women.
Immunotherapy might help treat diabetes in future
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Pilot study suggests intranasal theophylline may be worth further investigation as a treatment.
New survey shows that out-of-pocket costs are a major concern.
Parkinson’s takes away the control of movement
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HealthDay Reporter
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- A new treatment might open the door for more patients with advanced kidney disease to get a transplant, a preliminary study suggests.
Of the 100,000-plus Americans waiting for a donor kidney, about one-third are "sensitized," said Dr. Robert Montgomery, director of the Transplant Institute at NYU Langone in New York City.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer than half of U.S. stroke survivors are prescribed cholesterol-lowering statins, a new study finds.
Statins are recommended for patients who have had an ischemic stroke or mini-stroke (transient ischemic attack) to reduce their risk for a repeat stroke or other cardiovascular events, according to the American Heart Association. Ischemic strokes, the most common kind, are caused by blocked blood flow to the brain.
The investigators assessed proteomic profiling of 80 proteins using a multiplex assay.
Almost 40% of pre-dialysis patients with stage 4-5 CKD patients and type 2 diabetes had lab results suggesting low turnover bone disease.
CKD patients with and without diastolic dysfunction had average serum phosphate levels of 7.3 and 5.5 mg/dL, respectively.
Serum phosphorus and intact parathyroid hormone levels were not reduced with 12 weeks of rilonacept therapy.
MONDAY, July 24, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- Most primary care doctors can't identify all 11 risk factors for prediabetes, a small new survey finds.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University said their findings should prompt doctors to learn more about this condition that affects an estimated 86 million adults in the United States and could eventually lead to type 2 diabetes.
Up to a 49% higher risk of death observed in patients who had a 400 ng/mL increase in serum ferritin from baseline values compared with patients who had relatively stable ferritin levels.