Sentences with phrase «kidney disease which»

She has advanced kidney disease which placed her at a greater risk for anesthesia.

Active dogs need a fairly high protein content diet but Dobermans can also suffer from kidney disease which is made worse by a very high protein diet.

Speaking of testing, lab work is important in discovering medical issues such as diabetes or kidney disease which are common health concerns for an older cat.

Since you changed the formula my two senior cats, one has stage three kidney disease which I have tried well over 20 types of food to get him to eat.

Autosomal dominant Polycystic kidney disease (AD - PKD) is an inherited kidney disease which has become common in Persian cats and Exotic Shorthairs and some related breeds (eg, British Shorthairs).

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The source of the controversy is a DeepMind app that aims to suss out which patients are at risk for kidney disease.

That's a conservative estimate that excludes the costs associated with complications from diabetes which include kidney failure, blindness, vascular disease (which can lead to limb amputation) and heart attack.

«The No. 1 sign of mineral depletion is low energy and the second is some kind of pain, which if left un-replenished, could lead to a number of diseases, including things like liver and kidney disease, arthritis, etc.,» Long says.

From what I understand, when an overweight Type II diabetic remains overweight and is unable to get his or her disease under control with diet and exercise (which clearly, she hasn't, given her weight and her now - public relationship with Novartis), such a person becomes even more susceptible to the dangerous metabolic syndrome, which includes diabetes, as well as heart, kidney and liver disease.

This condition is a broad term which encompasses diseases cased by inflammation of the filters within the kidney, such as:

Mr. Hickey, who was one of the first speakers on Tuesday, talked in halting and emotional terms about the death of his father from kidney cancer, which led him to investigate, in a Google search, a possible link between Teflon and the diseases that seemed to plague his town and his family.

The resolution, which was approved at the March 17 session, designates March as Kidney Disease Awareness Month in Erie County and will be recognized annually.

«Prediabetes is often a pre-cursor to Type 2 diabetes which can lead to a shortened life expectancy and devastating complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and amputation.

Martinez says PFOA has been shown to cause higher levels of testicular cancer, thyroid disease and kidney cancer, which is what claimed the life of John Hickey.

Too little insulin, and blood - glucose levels spike high, which over the long term can lead to heart disease, kidney failure, blindness and amputation.

Other causes of heart failure include systemic processes such as inflammatory diseases, metabolic disorders, endocrine derangements, and kidney disease, which result in an unknown number of cases.

The most investigated of those are a group of hormonelike polyphenols called isoflavones, which seem to have effects on everything from kidney and cardiovascular disease and various cancers to hot flashes, bone calcium loss and other symptoms of menopause.

Hypertension, which is high blood pressure, is a risk factor for cardiovascular and kidney disease.

«The majority of patients with chronic kidney disease, particularly those in the more advanced stages who require dialysis, exhibited some degree of loss of their sense of smell, which correlated with reduced nutritional status,» says Teodor Paunescu, PhD, of the MGH Division of Nephrology, corresponding author of the study.

Chronic kidney disease is a condition in which damaged kidneys can not filter blood as well as healthy kidneys.

The European Commission is seeking to curtail citizens» exposure to the compound, which has been linked to kidney and bone disease.

The researchers say their findings also shed new light on how kidney disease leads to an abnormal thickening of heart muscle tissue called hypertrophy, which is a leading cause of death in people with kidney disease caused by high blood pressure, diabetes, and other illnesses.

It not only reduces the risk of heart disease, it also provides real protection against kidney decline which affects many people with diabetes.»

It also illustrates the mechanisms by which dysfunction of mitochondria — the power generators of the cell — affects kidney disease.

Working in mice, the scientists have shown that chronic itching, which can occur in many medical conditions, from eczema and psoriasis to kidney failure and liver disease, is different from the fleeting urge to scratch a mosquito bite.

A high dietary salt intake is linked to high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for stroke, heart attacks, heart failure and kidney disease.

This «insulin resistance» which develops in those with Type 1 diabetes is a major contributor to other complications, such as kidney failure and cardiovascular disease.

This disease which can limit the blood flow to kidneys, the stomach, arms or legs affects about 8 to 12 million Americans.

They also must take drugs to treat anemia, which commonly arises in patients with kidney disease because healthy kidneys are needed to generate the hormone that stimulates red blood cell production.

The concept, which explains why stirred tea leaves accumulate at a container's bottom rather than its sides, could allow quicker and cheaper tests for illnesses from anemia to kidney disease.

• SCT conferred a similar degree of risk as APOL1 gene variants, which are the most widely recognized genetic contributors to kidney disease in blacks.

Frischauf and other researchers are trying to clone the gene which causes polycystic kidney disease.

Approximately 9 % of the world's adult population has diabetes, which can cause serious health problems such as heart disease, nerve damage, eye problems, and kidney disease.

Compared to the control group, kidney stone formers maintained higher levels of the blood marker cystatin C and higher levels of urine protein — both of which are connected with higher risk of chronic kidney disease.

The team found that people with kidney stones had more calcification in the abdominal aorta, which could explain their increased risk for heart disease.

Joachim Fandrey, a physiologist at the University of Duisburg - Essen in Germany, adds that the results suggest that nitroglycerin patches, which have a long track record in treating chest pain in heart disease patients, might boost EPO production in people suffering from anemia due to kidney disease or cancer.

Naringenin, which is also present in other citrus fruits, has been found to successfully block the formation of kidney cysts, an effect that occurs in polycystic kidney disease, by regulating the PKD2 protein responsible for the condition.

Thus far, the connection between the gene, which produces a DNA - cutting enzyme called a nuclease, and the kidney disease has remained obscure.

World Kidney Day, which is being marked across the globe on 13th March, aims to raise awareness of the importance of kidneys and the risk factors for kidney diKidney Day, which is being marked across the globe on 13th March, aims to raise awareness of the importance of kidneys and the risk factors for kidney dikidney disease.

Hoping to prevent this deep - fried bombshell from going straight to the love handles of public opinion, physicians told Reuters that extra pounds can lead to obesity, which the study linked to increased death from diabetes, kidney or heart disease as well as some cancers.

«There could be potential long - term therapeutic treatments that could arise from this new knowledge, which can be explored for the treatment of additional fibrotic disorders including kidney disease.»

Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a kidney disorder passed down through families in which many cysts form in the kidneys, causing them to become enlarged.

Karl Skorecki, a physician who studies the genetics of kidney disease at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, and colleagues in London and the United States realized that they could study the lineage of priests by looking at the Y chromosome, which only men carry.

Kidney disease, which often leads to kidney failure, is a common complication of ciliopathies and is a significant cause of childhood disease and Kidney disease, which often leads to kidney failure, is a common complication of ciliopathies and is a significant cause of childhood disease and kidney failure, is a common complication of ciliopathies and is a significant cause of childhood disease and death.

One promising way to treat diseased or damaged kidneys is cell therapies that include the transplantation of renal progenitor cells, which can then develop into the cells needed for full recovery.

«The kidney is a very solid organ, which makes it very difficult to bring enough number of cells upon transplantation,» explains Professor Kenji Osafune, whose lab at the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at Kyoto University, Japan, is using iPSCs to investigate new treatments for kidney disease.

In their current study, Croft and his team, in collaboration with researchers at the biotechnology company Biogen, focused on TWEAK and its receptor, Fn14, which had previously been shown to participate in several inflammatory conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis and lupus - like kidney disease.

This causes an accumulation of sugar (glucose) in the blood, which can have severe long - term consequences for organs, including the kidneys, where it can lead to diabetic kidney disease.

But these issues are mitigated by HCV antiviral therapy, specifically pegylated interferon plus ribavirin, which was found to reduce risks of kidney disease, stroke and cardiovascular diseases in diabetic patients,» concludes Dr. Wu.

Through studies conducted in mice, Oliver M. Steinmetz, MD (University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, in Germany) and his colleagues have shown that the messenger protein IL - 6, which is rapidly produced at high levels during an acute inflammatory form of kidney disease, potently dampens activation of tissue - destructive immune cells called macrophages.