BY VICTOR TANGERMANN / AN HOUR AGO According to a new study conducted at Northwell Health, a large medical system located in New York, over a third of COVID-19 patients experienced acute kidney injury, Reuters reports. “We found in the first 5,449 patients admitted, 36.6% developed acute kidney injury,” Kenar Jhaveri, associated chief of nephrology...
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How high lipid levels cause inflammation and damage kidneys and blood vessels
by Saarland University Doctors interested in ways to minimize the risk of cardiovascular disease have long had blood cholesterol levels in their sights. But other types of blood fats (also known as ‘lipids’) can also be damaging to health. “Our work has involved studying a special group of lipids, the triglycerides. We’ve been able to show...
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Health Supplements May Be Harming Your Kidneys
THE SUPPOSED HEALTH benefits of drinking alkaline water are buzzy right now. Many are attracted by the jazzy marketing claims from manufacturers that this “enhanced” water is better than regular, old-fashioned water. So is there anything to these claims? I’ll save you the suspense: The answer is no. Here’s the thing about the human body,...
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MSU scientists unraveled the influence of aging on kidneys regeneration ability
LOMONOSOV MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY Autophagy is a process of destruction and processing of damaged cell components by the cells themselves. It is used by a cell to clean itself of excessive organelles and sometimes for self-execution. This adaptive mechanism supports a healthy phenotype on the cellular level. Autophagy is activated in certain cases of acute...
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Sirtuin-1 levels linked to lupus
The Cardiometabolic and Kidney Risk ResearchGroup, in collaboration with the Genomic and Genetic Diagnosis Unit of the Health Research Institute of Valencia’s Hospital Clínico, INCLIVA, the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Valencia University and the Hospital Clínico’s Internal Medicine Department, have proven that the levels of messenger RNA and proteins of the enzyme Sirtuin-1 in urine...
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