... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Albuminuria Kidney disease Alaska Natives Risk factor Epidemiology National Institutes of Health (NIH) 10.13039/100000002 The prevalence of chronic...

...B.R. Conway; A.P. Maxwell Diabetic nephropathy is the most common cause of end-stage renal disease in the Western world. There is evidence for a genetic susceptibility to diabetic kidney disease, but despite intensive research efforts it has proved difficult to identify the causative genes...

... in the transcriptional regulation of metabolic pathways and the efficacy of thiazolidinediones, the most clinically used PPAR-γ agonist, in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus. In this review, we discuss the pathogenic role of PPAR-γ in experimental models of kidney disease, clinical trials of thiazolidinediones...

... Kidney disease Proteinuria Glomerular filtration rate Mortality Stroke, after cardiovascular disease and cancer, is the third cause of death in developed countries [ 1 ]. In Europe, yearly mortality rates range from 63.5 to 273.4/100,000 inhabitants. Such large differences in mortality...

... Acute renal failure RIFLE criteria Epidemiology Hemodialysis Hemofiltration Kidney disease Critical illness In the future, the use of functional makers (urine output and serum creatinine) will hopefully be replaced or augmented by injury biomarkers. Several potential serum and urinary...

...Rovshan M. Ismailov; Robert J. Goldberg; Darleen Lessard; Frederick A. Spencer Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) and kidney disease have a poor long-term outlook which has provided impetus for the identification of factors of prognostic importance and more fully understanding the impact...

... control in diabetic patients. Some patients with glucocorticoid-induced DM are known to be troubled with polydipsia, polyuria and repeated infections. Recently, it has been postulated that patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease. In addition...