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Decreased kidney function leads to a decline in thinking and memory, a new study says. Researchers looked at changes in kidney function and mental skills for five years in nearly 600 people. The greater the decrease in a person’s kidney function during that time, the greater their decline in overall intellectual abilities, particularly abstract reasoning and verbal memory. “The brain and kidney are both organs that are affected by the cardiovascular systems,” said by a lead author Adam Davey, associate professor of public health in Temple University’s College of Health Professions and Social Work. “They are both affected by things like blood pressure and hypertension, so changes in one organ are going to be linked with changes in another.” The findings highlight the importance of diagnosing and managing chronic kidney disease. “As we get older, our kidney function tends to decrease naturally, so if there’s an extra issue involved in renal function like chronic kidney disease, ...

There are many kinds of kidney diseases and the causes of them are complicated.In order to treat kidney disease effectively,the detailed diagnosis are necessary. Kidney biopsy is one of the treatment methods which is used to check the problems. Renal biopsy (also kidney biopsy) is a medical procedure in which a small piece of kidney is removed from the body for examination, usually under a microscope. Microscopic examination of the tissue can provide information needed to diagnose, monitor or treat problems of the kidney. A renal biopsy can be targeted to a particular lesion, for example a tumour arising from the kidney (targeted renal biopsy). More commonly, however, the biopsy is non-targeted as medical conditions affecting the kidney typically involve all kidney tissue indiscriminately. In the latter situation, any sufficiently-sized piece of kidney tissue can be used. However there may exists some side effects or complications when received a kidney biopsy. The following passag...

Just a little exercise each week -- jogging for an hour or walking for about three hours -- can reduce the risk of developing kidney stones by up to 31 percent, according to a new study. Engaging in any type of light physical activity can help prevent the formation of these pebbles in the kidneys. Even light gardening might curb their development, according to the study and small amounts of exercise may decrease the risk of kidney stones, said the professor. Kidney stones, which have become increasingly common, are more prevalent among women. Kidney stones might actually be a systemic problem, involving more other problems such as obesity, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and heart disease. The researchers analyzed information since the 1990s on the women's eating habits and level of physical activity. After taking into account the women's body-mass index (a measurement of body fat based on a ratio of height and weight), the researchers found that obesity was a risk factor f...

Healthy adult catches a cold at average 2-4 times every year and child or the olders 6 times. However patients with chronic kidney disease have far more times of cold annually than ordinary people due to their poor immunity system. The number of those kidney patients using hormone are on rise. That is why the medicine choice of the renal patients is different from the ordinary people. What kind of cold medicine for renal patients? ●Antibiotics instead of ordinary cold drugs The cold is a primary cause of bronchus and tonsillitis which can cause nephropathy repetition and deterioration. Therefore, the renal patients should have the best option of antibiotics after a cold because of its equal price and a little side effects contrasting with common cold drugs. Antibiotics is including cefradine and roxithromycin etc and it has sterilized and anti-inflammatory effects. ●Pay attention to cold drug ingredients There are various cold medications in the market: Acetaminophen: ...

Kidney disease is a long-term, refractory disease. The pathogenic factors of kidney disease is varied and complicated. In recently year, the morbidity of kidney disease is on the rise. According to the world health organization statistics, In 2010, more than 220,000，000 people have diabetes mellitus all over the world, if we do not control, the number will double in 2013. In China, the patients with diabetes mellitus are more than 9,240 people and become the first country which has the most patients with diabetes mellitus all over the world, the morbidity is 9.7%. In addition, the morbidity of chronic renal failure is 11%, the number of patients with uremia is more than 2,000,000, up 120,000~150,000 patients with uremia every year. At present, in China, the prevalence rate is 10.8% in adult, Rural residents is more easy to have this disease. In clinic, it mainly is treated through peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis and kidney transplant. According to professor Wang Haiyan, most...

We all know that most of kidney disease is not easy to be cured, even some people die of kidney disease. For kidney patients, the key is to choose a professional kidney hospital. Except this, reasonable diet, appropriate physical exercise and good mood are also necessary in daily life of kidney patients. How to choose the best kidney disease hospital? The following is some useful suggestions: First of all, people with kidney disease should choose professional kidney disease hospital. For example, if a person with heart attack, he can’t find a good treatment in the hepatopathy hospital. Senondly, people with kidney disease should choose the best kidney disease hospital which has their feature treatment. Some kidney disease hospitals are good at hormonotherapy and dialysis, and some have high technology of kidney transplant. In kidney disease hospital of China, there are traditional Chinese medicine treatments, such as traditional herbal medicines, massage, acupuncture, medica...

In industrialized countries, renal epidemiology is faced with the growing epidemic of diabetes as cause of renal involvement or as an associated condition. Diabetic nephropathy is the leading cause of end stage renal disease in the Western world. Keeping your kidneys healthy could be one of the best ways to extend your life if you have Type 2 diabetes, researchers have suggested. Diabetes has a negative impact on survival in end-stage renal disease, particularly for type 1 diabetes patients and for women with diabetes. In type 2 diabetes, improvement in early access to renal transplant could lead to improvement in outcomes, whereas they are usually contra-indicated for transplant because rapid decline in cardiovascular status on dialysis. Approximately 5% of people in the UK have been diagnosed with diabetes, and careful management of their condition through a combination of medication and lifestyle changes can mean it has relatively little impact on their lives. However, if the d...

New york people with diabetes, who eats foods on general health guidelines of fruit, vegetables, fiber and unsaturated fat were less likely to develop kidney disease than unhealthy eaters, in a new study. Experts also found that eating normal amounts of salt and protein was not tied to a higher risk of kidney disease or death. Among people with diabetes, high amounts of sugar in the blood can lead to kidney damage over time. So high blood pressure often accompanies diabetes. The study followed about 6,200 people aged 55 and older with diabetes and no advanced kidney problems. Those people were part of a larger multi-country study on diabetes and vascular disease . Participants filled out questionnaires about how often they ate a range of foods. The researchers plotted those responses on a healthy eating scale of 0 (lowest quality) to 90 (highest quality).People in the study had an average diet score of 24.6, with a range of 9.8 to 66.2. Over the next five and a half years,...

Damage or injury to kidneys caused by a type of analgesic called Aspirin. Research shows that people who taking aspirin or paracetamol regularly are more likely to get a chronic renal diseases. Taking regular, high doses of aspirin---or any other analgesic such as acetaminophen, ibuprofen or naproxen sodium---can cause further decline in already compromised kidneys. Using a lot of aspirin every day can put you at risk for developing future kidney problems even if your kidneys are normal. But right now there is no clear explanation about this phenomenon. Doc. Michael together with his colleagues in Karolinska organization in Sweden, made a research about the application of the anesthesia analgesic on nine hundred chronic renal disease patients. Medical experts say that use of the medication does not cause the kidney disease, which is called focal segmental sclerosis. But many doctors say that at excessive levels of anti-inflammatory drugs, from over-the-counter medicine like ibup...

There are many reasons for renal failure. But what is the relationship between suppresses the urine and the renal failure. We all know that chronic kidney nephritis, diabetes nephropathy and hypertensive nephropathy can end in renal failure. Does it make any sense that the suppresses the urine causing renal failure? We can tell you that there is no direct relation between the two things but there is no doubt that holding the urine too much can lead to the infection of the bladder. The infection need antibiotic to cure which has a bad influence on the kidneys. With the different Physiological structure from the men, females are more easily to get infection in bladders. In daily life people should not hold the urine because it will damage the kidney. If the kidney function decrease， the disease will appear. Research shows that holding the urine too much is a cause of renal failure. Here is the reason. When the urine in the bladder reaches 200cc, people will get the desire to go ...

The function of the kidney has a lot of relation with our health. Going to the toilet frequently during night is a common symptom of kidney disease so people may ask “Is nocturia a sign of kidney disease?” Nowadays, even the middle aged have the same problem as the elderly people do. In this situation many people doubt if they have deficiency of the kidneys. The doctor said that there are many other symptoms of deficiency of the kidney function such as going to the toilet frequently especially in the night, soreness and weakness of waist and knees and decrease of sexual desire. However the disease can not be determined by the only one single symptom. If you still have questions you can go to the hospital to make a further check. It can be sure that it is the deficiency of the kidney not the kidney function if the data of urine test, blood urea nitrogen and creatinine are all in the normal ranges. Each normal person goes to the toilet four to six times in the day and no more th...

Recently, a twitter said that Mr. Shen stated to drink aerated water twenty years ago. He can drink five-ten bottles in a single day. Even he was diagnosed kidney stone seven years ago he did not change the habit until this October. He got a sharp pain in the kidneys and the doctor said that the stones are getting larger. The doctor suggested that he’d better stop drinking aerated water because the drink can increase the burden of kidneys and may result in kidney failure. It is very rare that a person got kidney failure for drinking the aerated water but it is true that drinking the soft water too much for a long time can cause kidney problems. Doc. Yang, a famous doctor in our hospital said that the all kinds of soft water in the market contain too much sugar. Drinking it too much for a long time, people may get fat even get diabetes which is a main cause of the kidney disease. Too much Carbonated Drinks can speed the elimination of calcium from the kidney which definitely will...

Renal failure refers to the losing of kidney function party or totally. The renal failure has two kinds, acute renal failure and chronic renal failure. A variety of diseases will be caused due to the losing of kidney excretion function in a short time, thus it is called acute renal failure. When the chronic renal failure developed to the final stage, it will cause a set of syndromes which is called  acute renal failure . According to the extent of the damage, the renal failure has four stages: 1. The renal reserve function descend. And patients haven’t symptoms. 2. Kidney function is incomplete, compensated stage. 3. Decompensated period (azotemia phase), patients feels tired and weak, lose appetite and have anemia. 4. Uremia period with the symptom of uremia. Symptoms and Signs 1. Oliguria stage The lack of urine volume will lead to hyperglycemia, water intoxication (serious edema,high blood pressure ,pulmonary or encephaledema ). Acidosis of metabolism and acute urem...

Creatinines are the metabolic productions of human bodies, every 20g muscular metabolism can produce 1mg creatinine. Creatinines mainly expel from human bodies by the filtration of glomerulus. Creatinines in the blood are from exogenous and endogenous. Exogenous creatinines are the meat foods productions after metabolism, endogenous creatinines are the muscular tissues productions after metabolism. At the time that the intake of meat foods is stable, and the muscular metabolism also have not big changes, the production of creatinines will be relatively constant. Regular range of urine creatinine 8.4—1 3.25mmol/24 hours urine or 40 mg/dl --130 mg/dl are regular. Reasons of the high creatinine the change of concentration of the serum creatinine is mainly decided by the filtration of glomerulus (glomerular filtration rate). If filtration ability declines, the concentration of creatinine rises. Serum creatinine value higher than normal mostly means the damage of the kidneys, ser...

My father's  diabetes  was diagnosed in his sixties. I fear that one day I'll become a diabetic too, in my later life. Is there anything I can do to prevent this? Diabetes often runs in families. If one of your parents has diabetes, your chances of getting it immediately become significantly higher. Certain population groups are also more prone to this condition, as are people who are significantly overweight. But if you are diabetic, it is by no means certain that your children will also be diabetics. Just as they may not have inherited your curly hair or strong teeth, they may also have sidestepped the diabetes. Diabetes occurs in two forms; · type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes), which occurs in young people and is the more severe form, requiring insulin injections · type 2 diabetes (non-insulin dependent diabetes), which is milder and occurs in older people and is usually controlled with diet and tablets. There are the obvious factors to reduce you...

In order to improve the  diagnosis  and treatment’s level, the chronic kidney disease foundation divides CKD into five stages based on GFR. Different tests and treatment are required differently in each stage. Stage 1: people occur kidney injure with normal or high GFR over than 90 ml/min. In this stage, kidneys still work normally even if they can not reach to 100%. Therefore, there are no obvious symptoms and sighs, and it is difficult for the doctors to diagnose the condition. But it is usually recommended the patients suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure to undergo various tests, which can tell the doctors the amount of urea and creatinine in the blood. The high amount of creatinine and proteinuria are the indicators that people may suffer from chronic kidney disease. Besides, people should do further tests to insure the stage of CKD. The result can be gotten from MRI, CT scan, X-ray and ultrasound. Through taking medications and other treatments, CKD can be ...

High blood pressure (hypertension) is a leading cause of kidney disease and kidney failure (end-stage renal disease). Hypertension can cause damage to the blood vessels and filters in the kidney, making removal of waste from the body difficult. Once a person is diagnosed with end-stage renal disease, dialysis -- a blood-cleansing process -- or kidney transplantation are necessary. Kidney disease is a term that describes any problems you may have when your kidneys are not working as well as they should. Your kidneys help to filter your blood to remove unwanted waste products. Depending on how severe it is, the effects of kidney disease can be minor. But if you do not take steps to control it, it can cause serious health problems. How healthy your kidneys are can affect your blood pressure, and vice versa. This means that if you have high blood pressure, then you are more likely to have kidney disease. Likewise, if you have kidney disease, this can sometimes cause high blood pre...

There are times when bubbles in urine are indicative of medical disorders such as kidney disease or urinary tract infections. Here are some conditions that can cause frothy urine. Proteinuria Proteinuria, or protein in the urine, can result in bubbles in urine that gives off a foamy appearance.Infrequent bubbles in urine can occur after ingesting large amounts of protein found in protein drinks, muscle protein gaining supplements, or a large meal of fish or other protein. When a normal amount of protein is consumed in excess the healthy body is able to gets rid of the extra by eliminating it through urine. But when protein is consumed in excess amounts, the kidneys can have a more difficult time getting rid of the excess waste. However, frequent bubbles in urine could be a more serious condition where the kidneys fail to function properly or a medical condition interferes with the body's ability to metabolize protein. Normally, when blood passes through healthy kidneys al...

Kidney disease  is often called a “QUIET DISEASE” as most people do not feel any different until the disease is very advanced. Recognition and awareness of the warning signs can mean the difference between early detection and treatment or kidney failure which becomes  dialysis , a transplant, or even death, if you don’t want to try other treatment. The changes of urine The first, and most obvious, symptom is a change in urination or urination habits. Kidney function is responsible for urine production. Thus, any abnormalities such as urinating less or more often; a decrease in the amount of urine; having oddly-colored, cloudy, foamy, or bloody urine; even pain or burning can be a big indicator that something is amiss. Protein or blood in the urine Protein or blood in the urine would probably only be detected during an annual physical, preoperative evaluation, or any other kind of physical that involves a urine test. Many kinds of kidney damage result in leaking of t...

Eating fruit leads to obesity? All people think of fruit is more nutritious. Fruits do contain a variety of vitamins, trace elements, and fiber to help digestion, which is an integral part of our balanced diet. However, for those who are losing weight, fruit is actually a double-edged sword. Fruit still contains calories and sugar. If you do not control the fruit, it may even lead to your obesity. The main reasons are the following two points: First, fructose in fruits is pro ne to obesity. Fruit contains more fructose, and fructose is more easily converted to synthetic fat than glucose. Glucose can be directly absorbed into the blood circulation and participate in energy supply in various parts of the body. The main conversion site of fructose is the liver. If the liver has sufficient energy at this time, then these extra fructose will be converted into fat by the liver and stored, leading to obesity. In addition, because fructose cannot stimulate the secretion of “leptin” like gluc...

Sedentary habits are more likely to cause abdominal obesity There are many reasons that affect a person's waist circumference, including genetic factors, eating habits, physical activity, and sedentary habits. There is a certain degree of family aggregation in the occurrence of obesity. The fatter parents are also fatter offspring. This is due to the fact that multiple sites on the different chromosomes directly or indirectly modulate the metabolism of fat and glucose metabol ism, leading to fat accumulation and obesity. Unhealthy eating habits and lack of physical activity are also one of the causes of abdominal obesity. In addition, the sedentary habit is a health risk factor that has gradually been paid attention to in recent years, because prolonged sit-in is more likely to lead to an increase in waist circumference. Sedentary habits can increase the risk of diabetes and hypertension. Regular physical exercise can reduce the risk of the above-mentioned chronic diseases, but t...