showing that major cardiovascular diseases account for approximately 50% of the causes of death in CKD patients (Heywood et al., 2007). Multiple cardiovascular risk factors, including lipids (Hager et ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global health concern, significantly contributing to morbidity and mortality rates worldwide. Characterized by a ...

Losing and regaining weight repeatedly—a pattern known as yo-yo dieting or body-weight cycling—can significantly increase the ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in ...

More than 35 million people in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease (CKD), a condition in which the kidneys are damaged and ...

Anemia is a common consequence of CKD, and is also a possible risk factor for cerebrovascular diseases. The purpose of this study was to examine if anemia and CKD are independent risk factors for ...

Kaplan-Meier (KM) survival curves were obtained using the log rank test to assess if KM survival curves for patients with or without CKD or with different levels of hemoglobin were statistically ...

A recent modeling study has identified risk factors predictive of good and bad outcomes in non-diabetic CKD, such as gender, race, and albuminuria. Using healthcare claims data, the researchers aiming ...

Dr Mahmud Maina, the Director of the Biomedical Science Research and Training Centre in the Yobe University made this known ...

The Yobe state government has deployed 50 health experts to investigate the root causes of the alarming cases of kidney ...