Clinical & Pharmaceutical
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03/09/2010
- Home Hemodialysis Improves Sleep, Restless Leg Syndrome
LAWRENCE, Mass.—Patients showed a significant improvement in overall sleep quality, and marked improvement in restless leg syndrome after four months of daily home hemodialysis using the System One machine, according to the latest results of an ongoing study by NxStage.The interim results from the FREEDOM study compared patients' responses to the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) Sleep Survey and the International ...
03/03/2010
- Official World Kidney Day 2010 Video
This year’s World Kidney Day, which is on March 11, focuses on the worldwide explosion of diabetes and hypertension and how it’s affecting the growing number of kidney disease and dialysis patients.“As developing countries become increasingly urbanized, they are adopting the unhealthy lifestyles that promote diabetes and high blood pressure, the leading causes of kidney disease,” CNN wrote in a ...
03/02/2010
- More ESA, Iron Use Decreases Death Risk in Dialysis Patients
CHICAGO—Greater use of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) and more frequent use of iron at lower hematocrit levels (the proportion of the blood that consists of red blood cells) was associated with a decreased risk of death for hemodialysis patients, according to a study in the March 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.“Appropriate use of ESAs [which stimulate ...
03/01/2010
- Kidney Damage More Common Among Non-Whites
NEW YORK—Non-white individuals at high risk of kidney disease are more likely to show signs of kidney damage than whites, according to new findings from the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP).The findings are published in the March issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.This damage is especially common among American Indians and Alaska Natives, who were ...
- Obesity May Affect Kidneys Differently in Whites, Blacks
NEW YORK—Obese African-Americans may be more vulnerable to the effects of chronic kidney disease than obese whites, according to new findings from the National Kidney Foundation’s Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP).The study was published in the March issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.KEEP is a free, community-based, program that has screened more than 140,000 people across the U.S. ...
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