It creates surface tension that helps maintain the position of the lungs in the chest cavity. The pleurae also serve as a division between other organs in the body, preventing them from interfering ...

Heart failure patients treated with finerenone (Kerendia; Bayer AG) are more likely to have an early decline in kidney function than those treated with placebo, but the decline should not be construed ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an umbrella term used to describe a longstanding disease or condition that causes the progressive loss of kidney (renal) function. Symptoms vary, depending on the stage ...

When this process doesn’t work properly, you can get kidney failure. If your kidneys can’t function properly, toxins can overwhelm your body. This can lead to kidney failure, which can be life ...

MAFLD has been proposed to be independently associated with an increased risk of CKD (4). Parvanova and colleagues investigated the prevalence of MAFLD in prediabetes, visceral obesity, and preserved ...

Among individuals hospitalized for COVID-19, kidney function decline was more severe but was similar among those hospitalized for pneumonia. HealthDay News — COVID-19 is associated with accelerated ...

Objectives To examine the relation between static and dynamic blood pressure (BP) measurements and the evolution of kidney function in older people, adjusted for the presence of multimorbidity. Design ...

The term chronic kidney disease (CKD) describes the adverse effect of heterogeneous disorders on kidney structure and function (1) and has a rising worldwide prevalence of between 11 and 13% (2).