Kidney health relies on more than just water intake. Excessive salt, painkillers, sugar, and protein overload can harm these vital organs. Smoking, alcohol, poor sleep, and ignoring early warning ...

Kidney diseases, often silent until advanced, impair vital functions like waste filtration and blood pressure regulation. Diabetes, hypertension, and family history elevate the risk.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is the progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function. This affects essential bodily functions, including mineral balance, red blood cell production, and waste ...

Udaipur, March 11: Kidney function tests are urine or blood tests that measure how well your kidneys are performing. Most of these diagnostic tests measure the glomerular filtration rate (GFR ...

According to NKF, you should start dialysis only if your kidneys have lost 85% to 90% of their function. Since you usually have typical kidney function when you have just one kidney, you won’t ...

The study, “Effects of statins on kidney function in older adults,” was published online on Dec. 18 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

No matter how an early decline in kidney function was defined, the primary study outcome was lower with finerenone than with placebo, say investigators. In fact, the effectiveness of finerenone was ...

Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and colleagues examined whether kidney function decline accelerated after COVID-19 versus other respiratory infections ...

“The addition of PLEX to standard immunosuppressive treatments leads to improvement in early kidney function, which may explain its benefits on kidney outcome at 52 weeks,” the researchers concluded.