A long-term study found that while a ketogenic diet prevented weight gain, it also triggered major metabolic problems. Mice developed fatty liver disease, abnormal blood fats, and an impaired ability ...

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We often think we know more than we actually do. While four in five Americans consider themselves knowledgeable about the ...

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In a consensus statement issued by the European Renal Association and published online Nov. 28 in Nephrology Dialysis ...

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Q: A lot of my friends are doing Dry January but I don’t drink enough to bother with it. Still, I like the idea of giving up ...

Nephrology is specialty of medicine concerned with kidney physiology, kidney disease, the treatment of kidney problems and renal replacement therapy. Systemic conditions that affect the kidneys (e.g.

Remove waste from the body Osmoregulation close osmoregulationA form of homeostasis which controls the volume of water in the body. The reabsorption of water back into the blood (at the medulla) is ...

Background: Acute kidney disease (AKD) affects more than half of critically ill elderly patients with acute kidney injury (AKI), which leads to worse short-term outcomes. Objective: We aimed to ...