Lithium is associated with an increased risk for thyroid dysfunction and chronic kidney disease (CKD) in patients with incident bipolar disorder (BD), according to a study published online Feb.

Learn how chronic kidney disease and diabetes accelerate heart risk, with new research revealing early warning signs.

Many older people develop chronic kidney disease and ... changes in two important indicators of kidney function — estimated glomerular filtration rate and urine albumin-to-creatinine (protein ...

During follow-up (21 ± four years), six criteria of progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) were studied. The researchers ...

Denmark: A recent study published in the Journal of Diabetes and its Complications has explored the role of kidney fat ...

Investigators compared the outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes who continued versus stopped metformin after progressing to stage 4 chronic kidney disease.

defined as onset of persistent 50% or greater reduction in eGFR according to the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation compared with baseline, onset of persistent ...

• Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) (medicines used to lower blood glucose) probably reduce the risk of death due to any cause but may have little or no death due to a heart attack in ...

It also reduced the risk of kidney failure and cut the risk of death from heart disease by about 5% in adults with both type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease, the company said in a news release.

"The data supports the kidney safety of statins in older adults with or without chronic kidney disease," the authors write. They suggest that "the decision to use a statin for other indications ...

Body weight cycling in type 1 diabetes is associated with increased risk of chronic kidney disease. Maintaining stable weight ...