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Patients with diabetes report worse quality of life with more intensified treatment

Measuring Quality of Life Important With Diabetes Tx

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Predictors of patient-reported outcomes vary by outcome examined
Hospital admissions of patients with Clostridium difficile infection and accompanying acute kidney injury are increasing

C. Difficile + Kidney Injury Admissions Are Up

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Despite increase in admissions, inpatient mortality improved from 2003 to 2012
For patients with late-stage renal disease

Findings Could Help Reduce Risk of Calciphylaxis in Renal Disease

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Only lupus anticoagulant, combined thrombophilias are risk factors in patients with stage-5 CKD
Health care spending growth slowed in 2016 following faster growth in 2014 and 2015

Deceleration in Health Care Spending Growth in 2016

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Enrollment trends drove slowdown in Medicaid and private health insurance spending growth in 2016
About one-quarter of adults with chronic kidney disease of unknown cause or familial nephropathy or hypertension have diagnostic mutations

Diagnostic Mutations ID’d in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

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Whole-exome sequencing identified diagnostic mutations, including PARN mutations, in two patients
CVS Health's planned purchase of insurance giant Aetna

CVS-Aetna Merger Has Implications for Doctors’ Offices

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More health services will likely move out of doctors' offices to store-based providers
In patients with sickle cell anemia

Ceruloplasmin ID’d As Marker of Kidney Disease in Sickle Cell

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Findings part of proteomic analysis of urine in patients with sickle cell disease
Targeting can enhance accumulation of nanoparticles to graft endothelial cells of human kidneys undergoing ex vivo normothermic machine perfusion

Targeting Ups Nanoparticle Delivery to Graft Endothelial Cells

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Anti-CD31 antibody selectively enhances targeting of NPs to graft ECs of human kidney undergoing NMP
Eating raw almonds

Almonds With/Without Chocolate May Improve Lipid Profiles

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Findings based on a small study assessing diet combinations in overweight people

November 2017 Briefing – Nephrology

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Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Nephrology for November 2017. This roundup includes the latest...