by National Kidney Foundation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Analysis recently published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) compared and contrasted the 2017 and 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) childhood hypertension guidelines and showed higher levels of proteinuria in children with hypertensive range blood pressure (BP) with 2017 vs. 2004 blood pressure percentiles. This comparison...
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc. Sep 1 2022 New research confirms for the first time that ethnicity is a risk factor for developing kidney disease in people with Type 1 diabetes. The study is one of the largest of its type and is published today in Diabetes Care by researchers from King’s College London. The findings also show...
by Columbia University Irving Medical Center Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new algorithm developed by researchers at Columbia University can analyze thousands of variants across the genome and estimate a person’s risk of developing chronic kidney disease—and it works in people of African, Asian, European, and Latinx descent. “With this polygenic method, we can identify...
THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY WASHINGTON—Obesity may negatively affect kidneys function in people with type 2 diabetes, particularly in women, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. Diabetic nephropathy, or the deterioration of kidney function in people with diabetes, is caused by high blood pressure and high blood sugar....
