A new advisory from the American Heart Association makes it clear: your risk for dying of heart disease is inextricably linked to the health of your metabolism and your kidneys. Chiadi Ndumele, a Johns Hopkins cardiologist and head of the …

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CKM stands for cardiovascular kidney metabolic syndrome, and Chiadi Ndumele, a Johns Hopkins cardiologist and chair of the American Heart Association writing committee that described the syndrome, says while people’s choices determine much of their risk to develop it, it’s …

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Cardiovascular kidney metabolic syndrome, or CKM, is a holistic approach to integrating a number of conditions that work together to negatively impact health and longevity. That’s according to Chiadi Ndumele, a cardiologist at Johns Hopkins and head of the writing …

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Anchor lead: How risky is Covid-19 for transplant recipients? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who’ve gotten organ transplants experienced more severe Covid-19 disease than many others at the beginning of the pandemic, but Dorry Segev, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins, …

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Anchor lead: People whose immune systems aren’t completely functional may have more Covid-19 worries, Elizabeth Tracey reports People who’ve gotten organ transplants take medicines to keep their immune systems from rejecting the organ, and this unfortunately also dampens their response …

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Anchor lead: Expanding criteria for using kidneys for transplant is possible, Elizabeth Tracey reports Kidneys that have sustained acute kidney injury, known as AKI, will most often recover and function well when transplanted, a study led by Chirag Parikh, director …

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Anchor lead: Would you accept a less than perfect kidney transplant? Elizabeth Tracey reports When people are on kidney transplant lists, life is often a struggle. Frequent dialysis can define their lives, and each day brings worsening kidney disease. Now …

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Anchor lead: One way to make more kidneys available for transplant is to use those that may have some injury, Elizabeth Tracey reports Kidneys are in short supply for transplant, with thousands of people on transplant lists in the US …

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reports Acute injury to the kidneys may occur in one in ten hospitalized people, recent estimates show. Measuring a protein in the blood known by the acronym SuPAR may help, according to a study in the New England Journal of …

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Anchor lead: Can the presence or absence of a certain protein improve kidney transplants? Elizabeth Tracey reports Kidney transplant success could be improved by testing both donor and recipient for the presence of a certain protein that genes determine whether …

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