Sentences with phrase «require kidney dialysis»

Researchers learned that humans and dogs have similar reactions to fermentable fiber and have incorporated this approach into a liquid product developed for humans who require kidney dialysis.

He ended up with heat stroke, kidney failure and pulmonary edema and ultimately required kidney dialysis.

Not exact matches

While mindful of the negative connotations that might arise from manufacturing body parts and implanting them, cyborg style, in humans, he doubts someone on a waiting list for a new kidney and requiring daily dialysis would have such qualms.

From dietary restrictions to multiple medications to spending up to 10 hours per week in treatment, dialysis requires a significant lifestyle adjustment, not just for people with kidney failure but for their family members, too.

«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.

First author Sagar Nigwekar, MD, also of MGH Nephrology, explains, «More than 25 million adults in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, with more than half a million requiring dialysis.

Nearly 17 percent of people in the U.S. have chronic kidney disease, and approximately 4 percent require dialysis and / or a kidney transplant due to kidney failure.

Prior evidence suggested that the variants may play a role in chronic kidney disease in blacks, however, the association of these hemoglobin traits to progression to kidney failure requiring dialysis was unknown.

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.»

Approximately half of individuals with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease eventually will require dialysis or kidney transplant by age 60.

«If maintained long - term, this could reduce risk of progression to end - stage kidney disease — where dialysis or transplant is required to survive — by 30 %.»

These individuals have a very high risk of cardiovascular disease, and some will also progress to kidney failure requiring dialysis and transplantation.

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, which is the fourth most common cause of end - stage kidney disease, requires dialysis or kidney transplant.

Autosomal dominant medullary cystic kidney disease 1 (MCKD1) is a rare hereditary renal disease that ultimately requires dialysis or kidney transplantation for patients.

About a half million people in the US — 44 percent of whom are diabetics — have ESRD, which requires dialysis or kidney transplantation.

You would think that treatment for kidney disease would help the problem, but not so with dialysis, which is often required for advanced cases of kidney failure.

And when that is the case, if the body, «detoxifying has no appreciable positive effect on failing liver or kidneys, those body functions require medical intervention like dialysis to assist with detoxification of the body....

When the kidneys are destroyed, the patients go into renal failure and require dialysis.

If you are not age 65, you may also qualify for Medicare if you have permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant.

His impairments include lupus, diabetes and kidney failure requiring dialysis.

Medicare is federal health insurance for people age 65 or older, younger people with certain disabilities, and people with End - Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).

In severe cases, dialysis or a kidney transplant may be required.

Patients with a stone obstructing a ureter (the tube connecting the kidney and bladder) will require dialysis until they are stable for surgery.

Kidney transplant patients, of course, only require dialysis until they are well enough for surgery.

2) Question: The governor just said he'd grant clemency to both my sister and me on our life sentences for armed robbery if I will donate a kidney to my ill sister, who requires dialysis.

It can permanently damage kidney function, causing you to require dialysis or a kidney transplant.

Diagnosis of end stage renal failure: End stage renal failure means an irreversible and total failure of both kidneys which requires the undergoing of renal transplantation or regular renal dialysis.

Obviously, we have made it painfully clear that people with kidney failure requiring dialysis can only get a guaranteed issue plan.

Do you currently receive kidney dialysis or require oxygen use or have you received or been told that you need an organ transplant or have you been diagnosed as having a terminal illness?

Additional Cover for Critical Illness (optional)-- It provides an additional cover for ailments which includes Cancer of specified severity, Open Chest CABG, First Heart Attack of specified severity, Kidney Failure requiring regular dialysis, Major Organ / Bone Marrow Transplant, Multiple Sclerosis with Persisting Symptoms, Permanent Paralysis of Limbs, Stroke resulting in Permanent Symptoms.

It also covers people with End - Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD).

The critical illnesses covered under the Standard Plan are as follows — cancer of a specified severity, stroke resulting in permanent symptoms, first heart attack of specified severity, open chest CABG, kidney failure requiring regular dialysis, Multiple Sclerosis with persisting symptoms, major organ / bone marrow transplant, permanent paralysis of limbs, surgery of aorta, primary pulmonary arterial hypertension.

If you have some really major health issues like kidney failure requiring dialysis, HIV, or dementia, you can still get a guaranteed issue plan.

• Alzheimer's Disease • Benign Brain Tumor • Blindness • Brain Surgery • Cancer • Deafness • First Heart Attack of a Specified Severity • Kidney Failure Requiring Regular Dialysis • Major Head Trauma • Major Burns • Multiple Sclerosis • Permanent Paralysis of Limbs • Parkinson's Diseases • Stroke • Aorta graft surgery

In some states coverage is available if you are under age 65 and are Medicare eligible due to disability and / or End Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a kidney transplant).

In conditions like blindness, deafness, Parkinson's and kidney damage requiring dialysis, you may be confined indoors for the rest of your life.

A lump sum amount is payable for the first time diagnosis of any one of the 11 critical illnesses (First Heart Attack of specifiedseverity, Cancerofspecified severity, Stroke resulting in Permanent Symptoms, Open Chest CABG, Kidney Failure Requiring Regular Dialysis, Major Organ / Bone Marrow Transplant, Total Blindness, Coma of specified severity, Major Burns, Multiple Sclerosis with persisting symptoms, Permanent Paralysis of Limbs).

A critical illness insurance policy can cover costs related to kidney failure for which dialysis or a kidney transplant is required.

In the Northern Territory, the incidence of kidney disease requiring dialysis rose from fewer than 400 per million Aboriginal people in 1984 to almost 1,300 per million in 2001.