Background: tudies of the beneficial effects of antihypertensive therapy in diabetic nephropathy have largely focused on hypertensive patients with microalbuminuria or overt albuminuria. Objective ...

The main physiologic function of albumin is to maintain colloid osmotic pressure. The recognition of many other physiologic functions, however, means that the clinical application of albumin has ...

Background High exposure to nickel could induce renal dysfunction in rodents and occupational workers. However, little is known about the effects of non-occupational exposure to nickel on renal health ...

Human serum albumin therapy confers neurobehavioral and histopathologic neuroprotection in adult stroke models. We investigated whether albumin might also be neuroprotective in ischemic brain ...

Objectives The effects of lipid metabolism disorder on renal damage have drawn much attention. Using the fatty liver index (FLI) as a validated indicator of hepatic steatosis, this study aims to ...

A Growing Double BurdenThe rising prevalence of prediabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in India reflects an ...

In the Diabetes Prevention Program, an intensive lifestyle intervention for overweight patients with impaired glucose tolerance lowered the 3-year incidence of overt type 2 diabetes, compared with ...

Mg and its alloys are promising biodegradable materials for orthopedic implants and cardiovascular stents. The first interactions of protein molecules with Mg alloy surfaces have a substantial impact ...

Autocrats today are polished, appear mainstream and use the media, not overt repression or violence, to gain public support and consolidate power. They govern through a ‘spin dictatorship.’ ...

Cyberbullying in any form can cause symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and should be considered an “adverse childhood experience” (ACE), a recent analysis finds.

During a live event, Gary J. Schiller, MD, explored the outcomes of the phase 1/2 trial of tagraxofusp-erzs in patients with ...

The researchers found that at day 180, the reduction in the urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio with combination therapy was 29 and 32% greater than with finerenone alone and empagliflozin alone ...