I bet you didn’t know that you could lose 90% of your kidney function without a clue. So, maintaining your kidney health is pretty critical. Two conditions that can make that problematic are high blood pressure and diabetes. But, there are eight conditions we should monitor to ensure proper kidney health.
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I’ve discussed the benefits of breastfeeding provides infants (here, here, and here– among other places). But, now there’s some new data- how breastfeeding helps moms!
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Boy, did we have high hopes. Back in late 2010, I reported on this great new premise that would let us treat recalcitrant hypertension relatively easily. Ardian had developed a system that would enervate the renal nerve, which is the primary regulator of blood pressure in the human body (the system is called Symplicity).
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I just had a friend spend a weekend. And, I was reminiscing about the Royal Canadian fitness program I employed to get my pre-teen self in shape. (Oh, the friend was from Toronto- that’s why this came up.) I also recalled using a handgrip exerciser as part of that regimen.
It’s Kidney Week. OK. It’s kidney 5 days… Starting today and ending on the 10th. A ‘week’ to make all of us more aware of one of our biggest killers- certainly one of our most expensive diseases- that is, often, undetected. Why is that so? Because most subjects (they are not yet patients) exhibit no symptoms, until a crisis has developed.
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One of the biggest components of the US Healthcare costs is kidney failure. About 1/9 of Americans (26 million) suffer from chronic kidney disease. $ 40 billion a year in costs. Almost 400,000 of Americans undergo dialysis thrice weekly.
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