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Dear Doctors: My father has diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes he fails to follow medical care for these diseases. Now his level of creatinine has reached 2.6 mg/dL, which is very high. He is ...

Blood test reports often feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms. But, two markers hold a lot of meaning: uric acid and ...

Kidney failure is a serious medical condition that can affect many parts of the body and become life-threatening if not ...

The human body can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. Yet millions of people walk around in a state of chronic dehydration, completely unaware that their kidneys are slowly ...

Prior studies of uromodulin, the most abundant protein in urine, and kidney disease have focused primarily on urinary uromodulin levels. The current study evaluated associations of serum uromodulin ...

A friend of mine was recently diagnosed with Kidney failure. I will appreciate it if you can let me know how to prevent this problemOgada (by SMS)Preventing kidney failure involves managing underlying ...

In multivariable adjusted model, no association seen for impaired kidney function with increased hazard of dementia compared with preserved kidney function. (HealthDay News) — Impaired kidney function ...

—Even though chronic kidney disease has been associated with rheumatoid arthritis, not a lot is known about how RA affects long-term kidney function. But a large prospective RA registry may hold some ...

Dear Doctors: My father has diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes he fails to follow medical care for these diseases. Now his level of creatinine has reached 2.6 mg/dL, which is very high. He is ...