Achieving and maintaining long-term clinical remission may prevent impaired kidney function in patients with lupus nephritis. Sustained clinical remission of lupus nephritis (LN) protects against ...

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at high risk of ischemic stroke (IS), but little is known about the predictive power of IS scores in patients with AF and CKD. Investigators evaluated 6 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers investigated the association between male infertility and renal function. They used a large cohort comprising 11,602 ...

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 ...

Patients with comorbid nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and chronic plaque psoriasis were shown to have significantly lower estimated glomerular filtration rate levels and greater prevalence ...

A study published next week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine suggests that elderly people with damaged kidneys are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart failure and stroke, ...

In patients with impaired renal function or fast-deteriorating eGFR at baseline, lucerastat was associated with a marked attenuation of kidney function loss, suggesting a potential disease-modifying ...

In an analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study, albuminuria (a marker of kidney disease) was associated with signs of silent stroke, and patients with albuminuria had a higher risk of ...

The anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and other major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) as well as death in adults with overweight or obesity who don't ...

The Alpestria-1 study enrolled (in France, USA and Spain) 26 patients with Alport syndrome at high risk of a rapid loss of kidney function despite stable multiple SoC drugs, including ...

MADRID — Semaglutide (Wegovy) prevents major cardiac events including death in adults with overweight/obesity and cardiovascular disease (CVD), both with and without impaired kidney function, a ...