Monitoring urine output at home can be a simple yet effective way to assess kidney function. Experts suggest tracking urine ...

Kidneys play a vital role in filtering waste, regulating fluid balance, and maintaining electrolytes in our body. When they ...

Poor kidney function negatively affects cerebral blood flow and may be linked to both stroke and dementia independent of known cardiovascular disease risk factors, a population-based Rotterdam ...

Chicago - Poor kidney function prior to heart surgery can lead to worse outcomes, higher surgical costs, and a longer hospital stay, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of ...

To investigate whether kidney function and cancer risk might be linked, Chen and her colleagues analyzed data on 31,896 people participating in the Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to ...

Poor kidney function is common among injection drug users, particularly those with HIV, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society ...

Suppressing HIV viral load improved kidney function in a large US observational cohort study, but only in those patients who had more advanced stages of chronic kidney disease (stage 2 or greater) and ...

The researchers found that, over a median 4.9 years of follow-up, 2,529 of the 31,896 eligible participants had incident cancer. Among patients with estimated GFR (eGFR) of >90, 75–90, and 60 ...

Declining renal function was associated with increased costs and length of hospital stay in patients undergoing CABG, according to findings published in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.Kidney ...

“While the relationship between poor kidney function and worse outcomes after heart surgery has been well established, the ability to predict the impact of preoperative renal insufficiency on ...