He recommended asking for blood and urine tests to check kidney function. The latest figures from Kidney Care UK reveal a stark divide in risk assessment results. Of the 112,150 people who completed ...

In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research ...

“Our findings emphasize the importance of a comprehensive assessment that considers not only the overall chronic disease burden, but also the complex interplay between diseases when evaluating the ...

If chronic kidney disease (CKD) is left untreated, it can lead to complications like anemia and high blood pressure, which can worsen kidney function and contribute to other health issues.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impairs the kidneys’ ability to filter excess potassium, which may lead to high potassium levels in the blood. Your kidneys filter waste from your blood. Conditions ...

The connection between infection and chronic disease is one I know personally. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with oral cancer. My doctors tracked the cause to a human papillomavirus (HPV) ...

Editor’s Note (12/27/24): The World Health Organization announced that the mystery “Disease X” is likely a combination of common and seasonal viral respiratory infections and malaria ...

Or you can have systemic inflammation, which may be caused by a chronic inflammatory disease.” It’s not unusual to experience fatigue, headaches and brain fog when you’re fighting off an ...

A chronic lung disease is a type of disease that prevents the lungs and respiratory system from working correctly. The main job of the respiratory system is to take in oxygen from the air we breathe ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema, is a long-term lung disease that makes it hard to breathe. The good news is COPD is often preventable and ...

There is good news, though. Kidney disease can be prevented, and even reversed in its early stages. Kidney diseases are a leading cause of death in the U.S. Yet while more than one in seven adults—or ...

The presence of structural or functional abnormalities in the kidney over a 3-month period is defined as chronic kidney disease (CKD), and is classified into five stages based on the glomerular ...