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Stories from the dialysis comunity across the globe.
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Childhood obesity quadruples risk of later hypertension. |
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AHA-BP: Six percent of normal weight children had high blood pressure as adults. Fourteen percent of overweight children had high blood pressure as adults. Twenty-six percent of obese children had high blood pressure as adults.
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Study of saxagliptin for diabetes shows no increase in heart attack risk. |
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Health Day News: But the drug had real benefits, as well. "Patients who received saxagliptin also had better control of blood sugar levels and a reduced need for insulin therapy," noted the study's co-principal investigator, Dr. Itamar Raz, of Hadassah Medical Center, Israel. Raz added that the diabetes drug also prevented the progression of microalbuminuria, a condition that occurs when a type of protein called albumin is spilling into the urine due to kidney damage.
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ISHD Congress in Argentina: Cardiac and Metabolic Disorders in Hemodialysis. Sep 11-14, 2013. |
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ISHD: Abstracts and program available at this link: http://www.ishd-can2013.com.ar/downloads/libro_abstracts_2013.pdf
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Video library relating to history of dialysis available at the ISHD website |
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Links to People and Events in the History of Dialysis. Group One consists of 10 links to movies assembled at Travenol Laboratoriesies about important people and events in the early history of the early development of dialysis treatment. Group Two consists of additional links at public web sites also devoted to the history of dialysis.
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Copper from the diet may play an important role in Alzheimer disease in mouse model. |
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LA Times: After three months, the effects were dramatic: In the mice who took in high doses of copper, the scientists observed that copper accumulated in the small blood vessels of the brain. Compared to mice on low doses of copper, the high-copper mice showed four times fewer levels of a protein called LRP1, which transports beta-amyloid and other debris out of the brain. They also showed abnormally high levels of beta-amyloid production and of neuro-inflammation.
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