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Heart failure affects 5.8 million people in the U.S. alone and is responsible for nearly 1 million hospitalizations each year, most resulting from a build-up of body fluid in the lungs and other organs due to the heart's inability to pump effectively. The disease needs to be closely tracked in order to avoid such hospitalizations, and home-monitoring interventions may be especially useful, UCLA researchers say. In their new paper, the UCLA authors discuss the importance of heart failure...
GASTONIA, N.C., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Novant-owned Mid Carolina Cardiology (MCC) in Gastonia is joining CaroMont Heart on January 1, 2012. This news follows an earlier announcement of three other CaroMont cardiology practices, Carolina Heart Specialists, CaroMont Vascular Center and Carolina Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery, coming together under the CaroMont Heart name. (Logo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120103/DC28000LOGO) Every Beat Counts.CaroMont...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) – You kidneys may be a window into your health. In fact, measures of kidney health may predict premature death. A person's level of kidney function often indicates how likely they are to develop kidney failure and other conditions. Kidney function is most accurately represented by the kidneys' filtration rate, but this is difficult to measure. Therefore, blood levels of a protein called creatinine are commonly used to assess kidney function, but levels of two other...
Human blood test used as template for animal blood test When evaluating early kidney injuries in people, doctors monitor blood level increases of creatinine, a waste product of muscle breakdown, to understand the severity of the injury. Creatinine is filtered by the kidneys, and small increases are an indication of early damage to vital kidney function. For pets suffering critical illness or injury, University of Missouri researchers have found that even tiny increases of creatinine in...
Markers of kidney function also predict who is likely to die prematurely Highlights Certain measures of kidney health can also predict who is likely to die prematurely. Blood levels of the proteins creatinine, beta trace protein, and cystatin C may portray aspects of health that go beyond the kidneys. Future studies should investigate whether a panel of markers of kidney function would provide a better prediction of an individual's prognosis than any one marker...
A patient's education level is not a fail-safe predictor of how well they will manage symptoms related to complicated chronic diseases, such as heart failure, according to a Purdue University study. "Our research indicates that some of the better-educated heart failure patients in our sample did not manage their symptoms as well as those who were less educated," said Karen S. Yehle, an assistant professor of nursing who specializes in cardiovascular conditions. "We're not sure why this is....
Finding by UCI team could help prevent cardiovascular complications UC Irvine researchers have uncovered an important source of inflammation seen in people with chronic kidney disease, which is increasingly common due to the epidemic of obesity-related diabetes and hypertension. Dr. N.D. Vaziri, professor emeritus of medicine and physiology & biophysics, found that CKD causes massive depletion of the key adhesive proteins, called the tight junction, that normally seal the space...
Clinicians should strive to identify and treat kidney injury patients who need care Most patients with an abrupt kidney injury that does not get better do not see a kidney specialist within a year, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The findings indicate that efforts are needed to identify and treat kidney injury patients who require subsequent care. Acute kidney injury (AKI), an abrupt or rapid decline in kidney...
ATLANTA, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CardioMEMS, Inc., an Atlanta-based medical device company that has developed and is commercializing a proprietary wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body, announced today that its founder and CEO, Jay Yadav, M.D., has been recognized as a finalist for the 9th annual Spirit of Endeavor Awards in the Technology Entrepreneur category. The awards are sponsored by TechAmerica and the Technology Association of Georgia...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Add this to your list of delicious and nutritious! According to two recent studies, pomegranate juice helps manage blood pressure; a better choice in comparison to the potentially harmful supplements many kidney disease patients take that the National Kidney Foundation says may be harmful to their health. Lilach Shema, PhD, Western Galilee Medical Center in Israel, and colleagues investigated the long-term effects of drinking pomegranate juice on heart disease risk...
