Sentences with phrase «kidney disease patients»

Obesity increases a chronic kidney disease patient's risk of developing kidney failure, but the mechanism underlying this connection has remained unclear.

This is why a restriction of protein intake is often recommended to chronic kidney disease patients to help prevent further functional decline.

To test a potential treatment for these olfactory deficits, the team enrolled seven dialysis - dependent, end - stage kidney disease patients in a pilot study of theophylline — a drug approved to treat asthma and emphysema and previously reported to reduce such deficits in patients without kidney disease.

More than 90 per cent of educational materials written for kidney disease patients is higher than an average patient's literacy, according to a new study published in the June issue of the National Kidney Foundation's American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

The international research team identified epidermal growth factor as a molecule of interest in kidney disease while analyzing kidney tissue biopsies from chronic kidney disease patients across Europe and the U.S..

Kidney disease patients often lose their interest in food, reporting that it has little flavor or an unpleasant taste, and the malnutrition that results is a significant contributor to worsening of symptoms and mortality risk.

Based on this review, they suggest a «probable» association between vitamin D levels and birth weight, dental caries in children, maternal vitamin D levels at term and parathyroid hormone levels in chronic kidney disease patients requiring dialysis, but «further studies and better designed trials are needed to draw further conclusions.»

«Blood tests predict kidney disease patients» risk of developing heart failure.»

A new tool may help health professionals assess kidney disease patients» readiness to make important life - changing treatment decisions around their dialysis care.

The findings point to the power of salt restriction in potentially prolonging kidney disease patients» lives.

Advanced kidney disease patients have a list of foods they know to avoid because they naturally contain a high level of the mineral phosphorus, which is difficult for their compromised kidneys to expel.

The goal in early stage kidney disease patients is to postpone or even fully prevent the development of uraemia.

As a result, even though the sense of smell has a major contribution to the flavors of foods, most efforts to increase food intake in kidney disease patients have focused on the sense of taste and direct appetite stimulation.

«Lowering salt intake improves heart, kidney health of chronic kidney disease patients.»

Although several studies have reported impaired olfactory ability in kidney disease patients, others have had mixed results, and none have been the kind of large - scale assessment that could characterize how specific abnormalities influence nutritional status.

«We know that in the general population olfactory deficits reduce the enjoyment of food and are risk factors for malnutrition, so the use of novel therapeutics to improve olfaction could be an innovative and effective way to prevent and alleviate malnutrition in kidney disease patients.»

«Small change in blood acidity could prove detrimental to kidney disease patients.»

In fact, kidney function typically declines in kidney disease patients, and eventually may require a transplant.