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Smoking and Risk of Kidney Failure in the Singapore Chinese Health Study [PDF]
Background:The relationship between smoking and risk of kidney failure, especially in people of Chinese origin, is not clear. We analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study to investigate whether smoking increases the risk of kidney failure ...
AD Lopez +32 more
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Salt-induced phosphoproteomic changes in the subfornical organ in rats with chronic kidney disease
Objectives Subfornical organ (SFO) is vital in chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression caused by high salt levels. The current study investigated the effects of high salt on phosphoproteomic changes in SFO in CKD rats.Methods 5/6 nephrectomized rats ...
Xin Wang +5 more
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Background We aimed to investigate the joint effect of visit-to-visit variability (VVV) in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) on cardiovascular ...
Panpan He +10 more
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Objective: This study aims to investigate the relationship between dietary salt intake and residual renal function in peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients.Methods: The daily salt intake of the patients was calculated based on a 3 day dietary record.
Nirong Gong +12 more
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A Klotho-derived peptide protects against kidney fibrosis by targeting TGF-β signaling
Klotho is an anti-ageing protein whose expression is downregulated in chronic kidney disease, but the large size of the protein makes it challenging to deliver therapeutically.
Qian Yuan +11 more
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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a high prevalence worldwide and is an intricate issue to whole medical society. Renal fibrosis is the common pathological feature for various kinds of CKD.
Jinhua Miao +7 more
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The role of the kidney in heart failure [PDF]
Renal dysfunction is common in patients with heart failure and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Cardiac and renal dysfunction may worsen each other through multiple mechanisms such as fluid overload and increased venous pressure, hypo-perfusion, neurohormonal and inflammatory activation, and concomitant treatment.
METRA, Marco +4 more
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BackgroundAlthough several risk factors for acute kidney injury (AKI) have been identified, early detection of AKI in acute decompensated heart failure patients remains a challenge. The aim of this study was to develop and validate a risk score for early
Li Zhi Zhou +6 more
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Background Previous studies showed that the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index was a better predictor of adverse cardiovascular events than triglycerides or fasting blood glucose alone. However, few studies have focused on new-onset hypertension.
Qi Gao +11 more
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Dose of colistin. a work in progress? [PDF]
We thank Rashid and colleagues [1] and Honoré and colleagues [2] for their comments regarding our article on risk factors for acute kidney injury in pa- tients receiving colistin or other nephrotoxic antimi- crobials [3].
Antonelli, M. +3 more
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