Nephrology News

Thirty-five percent of adults in the United States who were surveyed said they would consider leaving their primary care physician for qualified physicians providing on-demand telehealth services.

Investigators from New York University have identified the plant-based milks that compare most favorably to dairy milk for patients with chronic kidney disease, as well as those prone to kidney stones.

A collaborative approach between nephrologists and gastroenterologists led to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of hepatitis C virus across 31 dialysis facilities in Changhua County, Taiwan.

A recent survey showed a “noticeable shift” in the way adults in the United States define “healthy” and their motivations for adopting healthy eating habits, an expert told Healio Primary Care.

A study of individuals who resided in Baltimore suggested those with housing or food insecurity were less likely to achieve health parameters known to reduce the risk for kidney disease.

Despite having weakened immunity, patients who underwent dialysis sustained receptor-binding domain IgG antibody levels for at least 6 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to data from a sample of U.S. dialysis facilities.

In a cohort of Chinese patients with normal kidney function at baseline, NSAIDs had varying impacts on eGFR decline, with ibuprofen posing the lowest risk and etoricoxib posing the highest risk.

Decreased kidney function, as well as a sharper decline in kidney function, correlated with the development of dementia in older adults, according to results from a 5-year study of a health care use cohort published in Neurology.

While patient activation is “a fairly new term in the kidney space,” a speaker argued it is now necessary for nephrology nurses to understand and improve activation and self-management for patients with kidney disease.

Research in Israel showed that while patients on maintenance hemodialysis had a “substantial” antibody response to the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, the response was lower than that seen for those without kidney disease.