Our kidneys are vital organs, responsible for filtering waste products and excess fluid from our blood, maintaining electrolyte balance, and producing hormones. Protecting their function is paramount ...

The drug finerenone has a positive effect on patients with type 1 diabetes and chronic kidney disease. The drug reduces the amount of proteins excreted in the urine of these patients. This reduction ...

Guoping Li, Ph.D., of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead author, and Saumya Das, MD, Ph.D., of the Cardiovascular Research ...

Researchers from National Taiwan University Hospital and collaborating institutions have demonstrated that finerenone, a new-generation nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (MRA), ...

In the prevention of kidney disease in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and mildly reduced kidney function, SGLT2 inhibitors (SGLT2i) showed a stronger benefit than GLP-1 receptor agonists (RA) and ...

SGLT2 inhibitors combat inflammation and slow kidney disease by elevating S-adenosylmethionine (SAM) levels, which suppress inflammatory gene activity through epigenetic modification. The benefits of ...

The presence of the M1 genetic variant may confer protection in people with high-risk, APOL1-associated kidney disease, who are predominantly of Black African ancestry, with potentially important ...

Guoping Li, PhD, of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care & Pain Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is the lead author and Saumya Das, MD, PhD, of the Cardiovascular Research Center at ...

That vitamin bottle on your kitchen counter promising improved energy, stronger immunity, or enhanced performance might hide an uncomfortable truth – many popular supplements can damage your kidneys ...

Women and female mice are better able to recover from acute kidney injury (AKI) than are men and male mice, but the reasons for this hasn’t been well understood. The results of a murine study led by ...