Blood test reports often feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms. But, two markers hold a lot of meaning: uric acid and ...

Dear Doctors: My father has diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes he fails to follow medical care for these diseases. Now his level of creatinine has reached 2.6 mg/dL, which is very high. He is ...

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Kidney Health: Nowadays, understanding your body's signals has become extremely important for maintaining good health, especially when it comes to kidney health. Learn the difference between uric acid ...

The human body can survive weeks without food, but only days without water. Yet millions of people walk around in a state of chronic dehydration, completely unaware that their kidneys are slowly ...

In study participants, C-reactive protein levels were used to measure inflammatory severity, serum creatinine levels to gauge renal function, and estimated glomerular filtration rate was calculated ...

Prior studies of uromodulin, the most abundant protein in urine, and kidney disease have focused primarily on urinary uromodulin levels. The current study evaluated associations of serum uromodulin ...

In multivariable adjusted model, no association seen for impaired kidney function with increased hazard of dementia compared with preserved kidney function. (HealthDay News) — Impaired kidney function ...

—Even though chronic kidney disease has been associated with rheumatoid arthritis, not a lot is known about how RA affects long-term kidney function. But a large prospective RA registry may hold some ...

Dear Doctors: My father has diabetes and high blood pressure. Sometimes he fails to follow medical care for these diseases. Now his level of creatinine has reached 2.6 mg/dL, which is very high. He is ...