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3 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Shawn M. Carter |Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways: Risk for cardiovascular death increased with disease stage, but risk was similar for stages 0 and 1. Survival time was reduced by about 8.1 months for stage 4 vs. stage 0. Higher stages of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome may correlate to increased risk of cardiovascular mortality, according to a longitudinal study of U.S. adults.
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3 weeks ago | 
healio.com | Jill Rollet |Gina Brockenbrough
Read more Key takeaways: More than 20% of patients on hemodialysis reported cannabis use, but only 8% had ever been asked about it. Cannabis does not interfere with dialysis but could interact with drugs used by this population. Patients with kidney disease may be using cannabis recreationally or to treat symptoms without the knowledge of their health care team, according to results of a small survey of patients from a hemodialysis clinic in Canada.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Jill Rollet |Gina Brockenbrough
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Jill Rollet |Gina Brockenbrough
An aging population with more chronic metabolic disorders, an aging nursing workforce and a dearth of nephrology fellows may signal a continued decrease in the nephrology workforce, according to Healio | Nephrology News & Issues sources. “A shortage of nephrologists since the start of the specialty has always put extra workloads on those in practice. Remember the projections of potential patients and costs in 1972 when Congress approved Medicare for dialysis payment?
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Shawn M. Carter |Gina Brockenbrough |Ronald D. Perrone
Key takeaways: Patients on tolvaptan had an eGFR decline of 1.40 mL/min/1.73 m² per year. Annual rate of eGFR decline in patients on tolvaptan was slower than in historical controls. Routine use of tolvaptan in clinical practice may slow eGFR decline for patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease compared with historical controls, data show.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Jill Rollet |Gina Brockenbrough
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Shawn M. Carter |Gina Brockenbrough |Silvi Shah
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Shawn M. Carter |Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways: Risk for cardiovascular death increased with disease stage, but risk was similar for stages 0 and 1. Survival time was reduced by about 5 months for stage 4 vs. stage 0. Higher stages of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome may correlate to increased risk of cardiovascular mortality, according to a longitudinal study of U.S. adults.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Shawn M. Carter |Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways:Patients sleeping less than the median duration of 6 to 7 hours had a higher mortality risk on dialysis days. Use of sleeping pills contributed to higher mortality rates. Poor sleep quality may be linked to higher mortality for adults on hemodialysis, data show.
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1 month ago | 
healio.com | Sanjeev Bhatia |David Mandell |Carole Foos |Gina Brockenbrough
Key takeaways: It is important for physicians to diversify their wealth according to tax rate exposure. Diversification across tax buckets puts one in a position of strength and provides options for withdrawing income. Physicians typically have tax reduction and long-term wealth accumulation at the top of their financial objectives. The strategy of tax diversification is valuable to achieve both goals and is a concept that Carole C. Foos, CPA, and David B.
