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For patients at high risk for renal complications who are scheduled for angiography

AHA: Acetylcysteine, Sodium Bicarbonate Don’t Cut Renal Risk

No benefit among patients at high risk for renal complications scheduled to undergo angiography
Among patients with childhood-onset type 1 diabetes

Risk of End-Stage Renal Disease Low With Type 1 Diabetes

Findings among a large study of Norwegian children followed for 40-plus years
The incidence of end-stage renal disease with diabetes listed as the primary cause decreased across the United States from 2000 to 2014

Drop in Incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease Due to Diabetes

2000 to 2014 saw decrease in incidence of ESRD with diabetes listed as the primary cause

The American Society of Nephrology, Oct. 31-Nov.5

The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Nephrology, Kidney Week 2017 The annual meeting of the American Society of Nephrology was...
Sertraline treatment does not significantly improve depressive symptoms among patients with non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and major depressive disorder

Sertraline Treatment No Benefit for Depressive Symptoms in CKD

No improvement for patients with MDD and chronic kidney disease without dialysis dependence
Researchers have identified a potential diagnostic and therapeutic target for fibrillary glomerulonephritis

ASN: Promising Diagnostic Marker for Fibrillary GN Identified

Fibrillary glomerulonephritis glomeruli exhibit overexpression of DNAJB9 protein
Proton pump inhibitor users have an increased risk of chronic kidney disease or end-stage renal disease

ASN: PPIs Associated With Increased Risk of Kidney Disease

Risk for both chronic kidney disease, end-stage renal disease higher with proton pump inhibitor use
For patients with later-stage autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease

ASN: Tolvaptan Slows eGFR Decline in Later-Stage ADPKD

Reduction in decline in eGFR for patients with later-stage autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease
Nonmedical factors affect racial disparities in kidney transplant wait-listing

ASN: Nonmedical Factors Impact Kidney Transplant Waits

African-Americans less likely to be wait-listed; higher income positively associated with wait-listing
Caffeine consumption appears to have a dose-dependent protective effect against mortality in chronic kidney disease patients

ASN: Caffeine Associated With Reduced Mortality in CKD

Chronic kidney disease patients in highest quartile of caffeine consumption have lowest risk for mortality