A Vision for Advancing American Kidney Health: View from the US Department of Health and Human Services.AAKHIDepartment of Health and Human ServicesThe time has come for dialysis to take its place in a museum among the most revolutionary, lifesaving, and soon to be historical medical devices....
My journey to the fight for the right to health stems from a personal health experience: as a three-year-old, I almost lost my left kidney due to infection caused by a congenitally blocked ureter. But, because of the heroic advocacy of my parents, and the resources we had available to ...
Prior to or when initiating:Test patients for HBV infection. Prior to or when initiating, and during treatment:As clinically appropriate, assess serum creatinine, CrCl, urine glucose, and urine protein in all patients. In patients with ...
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) guidelines were followed, and a participant was considered to have diabetes if they fulfilled at least one of the criteria listed in Table 6. In other words, labels for each time-step were generated by considering both inspection features, which are ...
Beyond its primary role in diabetes treatment, SGLT-2 inhibitors have demonstrated versatility in various health aspects, offering benefits beyond glucose reduction. This drug class has exhibited unique kidney protective actions, improved cardiovascular (CV) outcomes, and other physical benefits.1...
Wound healing represents a complex biological process, critically important in clinical practice due to its direct implication in a patient’s recovery and quality of life. Conservative wound management frequently falls short in providing an ideal enviro
Health systems have improved their abilities to identify, diagnose, treat and, increasingly, achieve viral suppression among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Despite these advances, a higher burden of multimorbidity and poorer health-related quality of life are reported by many PLHIV in comparison to...
People with Lynch syndrome have an 80 percent chance they might develop colon cancer; women with the disease have a 71 percent chance of developing endometrial cancer (in the uterus), per the American Association for Cancer Research.Sure enough, in March 2014, when Negrin woke up af...
(Left) Yearly average distribution of particulate matter PM2.5. Source: New York City Community Air Survey (NYCCAS). (Right) NYC-population density (source American Community Survey, open source online) Full size image However, while the broad correlation between adverse respiratory health outcomes ...
Time to lupus low disease activity state in the Hopkins Lupus Cohort: role of African American ethnicity. Arthritis Care Res. 72, 225–232 (2020). CAS Google Scholar van Vollenhoven, R. F. et al. 2021 DORIS definition of remission in SLE: final recommendations from an international task ...