chronic kidney disease

(MedPage Today) -- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) did not help in reducing mortality for patients with more advanced chronic kidney disease, according to a single-center study.

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(American Society of Nephrology) Heart disease causes 35 percent of deaths in young adults with chronic kidney disease.

Children with only mildly impaired kidney function experience poor growth, delayed puberty, metabolic problems, and high blood pressure.

Treating these conditions during childhood might slow kidney disease and prevent heart-related deaths in young adults.

Latest government health guidelines advise people who are 51 and older, all African-Americans and anyone suffering from hypertension, diabetes or chronic kidney disease to reduce daily sodium intake to little more than half a teaspoon.

(American Society of Nephrology) Children with chronic kidney disease are more likely to have mothers who were obese or had diabetes during pregnancy, according to a study presented at the American Society of Nephrology's 43rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition, by Christine W.

Hsu, M.D. (University of Washington, Seattle), and colleagues.

Planned early initiation of dialysis in patients with chronic kidney disease did not improve survival or other clinical outcomes, a multicenter randomized trial found.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Patients with chronic kidney disease who have been diagnosed with depression are twice as likely to be hospitalized, progress to long-term dialysis treatments or die within a year as those who are not depressed, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have found.

(Penn State) The routine use of a screening urine dipstick to diagnose chronic kidney disease in healthy children is not a cost-effective test, confirm Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who validated an American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation.