In this Ask The Professor Q&A, David St-Jules, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition, and Dr. John Westhoff, associate professor in the School of Medicine and ...

Kidney diseases develop slowly and may not produce any obvious symptoms for a long time. The body can compensate for them so ...

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Plant-based diets are a hot topic in chronic illness management, but they are often misperceived as an eating pat-tern that ...

Rates of chronic kidney disease have been rising quickly in the U.S. This diet could help lower your risk of developing it. A plant-based eating style called the EAT-Lancet diet can reduce the risk of ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has long remained at the margins of the evidence base for the cardiovascular benefits of blood-pressure lowering. The absolute risk of cardiovascular events in people with ...

Scientists have been trying to solve the puzzle of the kidney-heart connection. They discovered that diseased kidneys release a tiny toxin that is damaging to the heart. The findings were published in ...