DaVita Diet Helper at DaVita.com Assists More Than 6000 Kidney …
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
DaVita Diet Helper recently registered its 6000th user with later-stage kidney disease and the number is still growing. The online tool is an interactive …

Statins and ACE inhibitors in adolescents with diabetes
Nursing in Practice - London,England,UK
Statins and ACE inhibitors have been shown to help reduce the risk of cardiovascular and kidney disease in adults with diabetes, but the Adolescent Type 1 …

Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease on Darbepoetin Therapy Do Not …
DG News - USA
[Presentation title: Population Pharmacokinetics of Darbepoetin Alfa in Peritoneal Dialysis and Non-Dialysis Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease After …

Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes is crucial
New Europe - Brussels,Belgium
… cause of blindness and visual disability, kidney failure, heart disease, neuropathy and diabetic foot disease, which can lead to foot or leg amputation. …

Sept. 14-20 named PKD awareness week
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
14-20 as National Polycystic Kidney Disease Awareness Week. Hatch said that while it is not well known, the disease afflicts 600000 Americans and 12 million …

Newly Found Gene Variants Account For Kidney Diseases Among …
Science Daily (press release) - USA
The researchers studied nondiabetic kidney diseases that can lead to chronic kidney disease and, in severe cases, to kidney failure requiring long-term …

Kidney disease increases risk of complications
Reuters - USA
By Karla Gale NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Chronic kidney disease puts hospitalized patients at increased risk for adverse events related to potential lapses …

DaVita Prepares Florida Dialysis Patients for Hurricane Ike
MarketWatch - USA
For additional information please visit DaVita.com for material including articles on Emergency preparedness for people with kidney disease and Preparing …

Hospitalized Patients With CKD Are At Increased Risk Of Being …
Science Daily (press release) - USA
4, 2008) — Hospitalized patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at higher risk for adverse consequences of medical care compared with those without …

Hydrating Kidney Patients With Sodium Bicarb Has Little Effect
U.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USA
3 (HealthDay News) — Hydrating kidney disease patients with sodium bicarbonate during coronary angiography is no more effective in reducing the risk of …

N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide (NT-proBNP …
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Natriuretic peptides have emerged as valuable biomarkers of cardiovascular risk in the general population and in patients with cardiac and kidney disease …

Inexpensive drug improves kidney function in diabetics
NephrOnline - Scottsdale,AZ,USA
Pentoxifylline, a drug used to treat patients with circulation problems, may also benefit those with kidney disease caused by diabetes and other conditions. …

Blood pressure pill works well in kids, study shows
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Hypertension is rare in young children, typically caused by underlying kidney disease or other secondary causes. The current study provides the first …

Life on Dialysis: A Treatment Option for Kidney Failure
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
But the new kidney didn’t take. “I don’t know the donor of that. Unfortunately, he had a disease I didn’t have and he contracted it and I nearly died from …

Damaged kidneys won’t filter toxins out of bloodstream
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Experts estimate 10 to 20 million people have kidney disease but don’t know it. Millions of people have only half their normal kidney function but have no …

Check Young Kidney Patients’ Hearts
eMaxHealth.com - Hickory, NC, USA
A Beaumont Hospitals researcher is urging heart screenings for young and middle-aged people with chronic kidney disease, based on his research among more …

Teens with diabetes: Not defined by disease
USA Today - USA
Long-term problems, such as blindness, kidney disease and nerve damage, occur when a type 1 diabetic has prolonged hyperglycemia. …

Kidney Disease
Canada.com - Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
People with kidney failure need to receive dialysis or a kidney transplant. The most common causes of kidney disease include diabetes, high blood pressure, …

A tablet a day may cast dialysis away
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Mr Alexander feels lucky his kidney disease, caused by diabetes diagnosed almost 30 years ago, has not advanced to the stage where he is required to have …

DaVita Dialysis honored for patient care
Yuma Sun - Yuma, AZ, USA
They are also the leading causes of chronic kidney disease. ESRD occurs when chronic kidney disease progresses from the kidneys functioning at 60 percent or …

Kidney disease can be treated
Corpus Christi Caller Times - Corpus Christi,TX,USA
The presence of microalbuminuria predicts future development of proteinuria, which ultimately predicts end stage kidney disease. …

Tiny pump which could boost kidney patients’ lives
Daily Mail - UK
Around four in every 1000 people in Britain will develop kidney disease at some point in their life. Some will respond to treatment with a cocktail of drugs …

Kidney Disease Poses a Big Challenge, but Dialysis Gives Me Hope …
Washington Post - United States
An estimated 26 million American adults live with kidney disease, according to a study last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association. …

Uric Acid May Raise CKD Risk
Renal and Urology News - New York, NY, USA
High uric acid levels found to increase the risk of new-onset kidney disease twofold. STOCKHOLM —Researchers in Vienna have found that higher levels of uric …

Kidney Patients Less Likely to Get Heart Attack Meds
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
MONDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) — After having a heart attack, people with kidney disease are less likely to receive recommended medications, …

Early detection can prevent kidney disease
WALB-TV - Albany, GA, USA
By Sarah Baldwin - bio | email THOMASVILLE, GA (WALB) - Twenty-six million American adults have chronic kidney disease and millions more are at risk. …

Dietitian Gives Kidney-Healthy Menu Tips
KPTV.com - Portland, OR, USA
But for those newly-diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, or CKD, dietitian Susie Beckett said it’s time to steer in a new direction. “The kidney diet is …

Congress overrides Bush veto, passes Medicare reform legislation
Renal Business Today - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The new law also requires Medicare to create kidney disease awareness, screening and surveillance projects to help decrease and prevent kidney disease. …

Management of Mineral and Bone Disorders In Patients on Dialysis …
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
One aspect of care, management of chronic kidney disease mineral and bone disorders (CKD-MBD), guided by the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative …

Protein Recommendations for Individuals With CKD Stages 1-4
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
By Stall, Sharon The prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) has increased in the US population from 20 million to 26 million people during 1999- 2004, …

Nearly 3000 US Hospitals Ranked for Chronic Care
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
… coronary artery disease, chronic kidney failure, peripheral vascular (circulatory) disease, diabetes with organ damage, and severe chronic liver disease …

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 …

Molecule That Kills Kidney Cancer Cells Discovered
Science Daily (press release) - USA
ScienceDaily (July 7, 2008) — Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. …

Drastically Lowering Blood Sugar Could Harm Diabetics
Discover Magazine - New York,NY,USA
There was one promising result in the Australian study: The patients with very low blood-sugar levels had fewer cases of kidney disease, …

Chronic Kidney Disease: The Underrecognized Epidemic
Medical News Today - UK
Chronic kidney disease, CKD, is not well known in the public. However, its high prevalence and associated mortality should make the condition a public …

Overnight dialysis helps patients manage time
Southtown Star - Chicago,IL,USA
Of those suffering from kidney disease, some are born with it or inherit it. Those who do not monitor their diabetes or hypertension can get kidney disease. …