Kidney Disease

Patients with kidney disease under the care of Somatus transitioning back home after a hospital stay were 49% less likely to be readmitted to the hospital compared with patients who did not receive the care, the company reports.

While clinical trials have shown hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors to be non-inferior to other anemia drugs, questions remain about IV or oral iron supplementation and inflammation, according to a new report.

The FDA approved Jardiance 10 mg tablets to lower the risk of sustained decline in eGFR, end-stage kidney disease, cardiovascular death and hospitalization in adults with chronic kidney disease at risk of progression, a press release noted.

The Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes has released a new report for the kidney community on managing the symptom burden of dialysis. “The frequency and burden of symptoms experienced by people on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis is increasingly recognized throughout the medical community,” Edwina A. Brown, MD, of the Imperial College Renal and Transplant Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London, and co-chair of the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Symptom-Based Complications in Dialysis Controversies Conference, said in a press release. “These wide-ranging symptoms include itching, fatigue, pain, dry skin, poor sleep, muscle cramps and depression.”

Kidney disease progression after 5 years may be strongly associated with AKI, according to the results of a U.K.-based parallel-group cohort study.

Interwell Health has signed an agreement with health care provider Humana Inc. to provide care to patients with chronic kidney disease in 13 states.

Underrepresented groups with kidney disease face greater health care burdens due to psychological and structural factors, such as stigma and institutional racism, data show.

Living conditions in the southeastern region of the United States, known as the “stroke belt” for its higher incidence of stroke among the population, pose a novel risk of chronic kidney disease, a recently published study shows.

Kidney diseases are biologically modulated by sex and can be culturally modulated by gender. There are well-described sex- and gender-specific differences in the prevalence and prognosis of some kidney diseases, the prototype of which is lupus nephritis.

Individualized nutrition plans can boost quality of life and improve diet adherence for patients with kidney disease who choose not to undergo dialysis, a review of studies and guidelines published in the Journal of Renal Nutrition showed.