Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...
Acute kidney injury, or AKI, is a dangerous condition that affects many people in hospitals, especially those in intensive ...
In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...
Rhabdomyolysis is a condition in which muscle damage—often caused by drug intake—can lead to impaired kidney function and ...
Sodium reduction and appropriate protein intake are central nutrition strategies for slowing kidney stress and supporting ...
Kidney failure has a significant impact on public health; about 750,000 Americans and 2 million people around the world are affected every year. People can be treated with dialysis or a transplant, ...
Recently, my primary care physician spotted some abnormal numbers related to my kidney function. He suspects that this is ...