April 17, 2012
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) — At least one in 10 U.S. adults is estimated to have chronic kidney disease, but whether screening and monitoring people in the earlier stages of the disease provides a benefit just isn’t clear, a new review of the available clinical trials revealed.
The finding doesn’t necessarily mean that early screening or monitoring of kidney disease isn’t helpful, it just shows no clear evidence to prove that it is. “We didn’t find direct evidence for benefits or harms. There were no randomized controlled trials for screening or monitoring,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Howard Fink, a staff physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn.
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March 8, 2012
THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) — Elderly people with metabolic syndrome are at increased risk for chronic kidney disease, and insulin resistance may be the central hub that links metabolic syndrome and kidney-function decline, according to a new study.
People are diagnosed with metabolic syndrome when they have at least three risk factors for diabetes and heart disease, including: high blood pressure, high blood-sugar (glucose) levels, high triglycerides (fat in the blood), low levels of “good” (HDL) cholesterol and too much abdominal fat.
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February 24, 2012
FRIDAY, Feb. 24 (HealthDay News) — Overweight or obese people with chronic kidney disease may suffer further kidney damage if they use certain weight-loss methods, a new study warns.
Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed the eating and lifestyle habits of nearly 11,000 overweight or obese adults who took part in the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
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February 23, 2012
By Serena Gordon
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Feb. 23 (HealthDay News) — If you’re receiving kidney dialysis, four new studies suggest that you could benefit from longer or more frequent dialysis sessions.
The treatments can be done at home or at a dialysis center, but it appears that more time spent doing dialysis can reduce mortality rates and improve quality of life, according to the research published online and in the March issue of the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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December 9, 2011
FRIDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) — Many American soldiers who suffer burns and wounds during combat develop acute kidney injury, an abrupt or rapid decline in kidney function that is potentially deadly.
That’s the finding of a study that looked at acute kidney injury among 692 U.S. military casualties who were evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan to burn units.
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November 13, 2011
SUNDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) — Unborn babies diagnosed with severe heart problems who are put on the heart transplant list before birth get new hearts more quickly than babies listed after birth, according to a new study.
The findings are to be presented Tuesday at the American Heart Association annual meeting in Orlando, Fla.
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November 10, 2011
THURSDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDay News) — Minority children are less likely than white children to get a kidney transplant before their kidney disease gets so bad they need dialysis, U.S. researchers find.
They also found that black children with kidney failure and no health insurance are more likely than whites to die while waiting for a kidney transplant.
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August 19, 2011
FRIDAY, Aug. 19 (HealthDay News) — People with metabolic syndrome are at increased risk for kidney disease, a new study suggests.
Metabolic syndrome refers to the presence of three or more of the following health threats: high blood pressure, high blood sugar, low good cholesterol, excess fat in the waist/abdomen, and elevated levels of fatty acids.
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June 14, 2011
TUESDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) — Patients with early-stage chronic kidney disease are more likely to die if they have elevated levels of a certain hormone, a new study says.
Endocrine hormone fibroblast growth factor 23 (FGF-23) regulates phosphorus metabolism. It was known that levels of FGF-23 increase as kidney function declines and that high levels of the hormone are associated with increased risk of death in patients with kidney failure. But little was known about how elevated levels of FGF-23 affect outcomes of patients with early-stage chronic kidney disease.
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October 6, 2010
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News)– A new study finds that older people with moderate chronic kidney disease are more likely than others their age to develop hearing loss.
Australian researchers reached their conclusions after studying more than 2,900 people aged 50 and older, of whom 513 had moderate kidney disease. Of those, 54 percent reported having hearing loss, while only 28 percent of the others did. Tests showed that 30 percent of patients with chronic kidney disease had severe hearing loss, while just 10 percent of the others did.
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