Jill Rollet
Executive Editor at Healio
Health care journalist, magazine editor, creative nonfiction fan. Tweets are my own.
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1 week ago |
healio.com | Jill Rollet |Richard Smith |Shalabh Gupta
Key takeaways:Of survey respondents, 47% said large number and large size of pills were among top phosphate binder adherence barriers. An investigational agent is smaller, swallowed whole and dosed with fewer pills. BOSTON — Patients on kidney dialysis reported better adherence to an investigational phosphate-binding agent designed to be smaller, swallowed whole and dosed with fewer pills than available oral therapies, according to survey data.
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1 week ago |
healio.com | Jill Rollet
Key takeaways:Each year at the highest heat quartile was linked to a 0.74% drop in eGFR for kidney transplant recipients. Recipients in the hottest vs. coldest quartile had a 30% higher risk for a major adverse kidney event. BOSTON — Kidney transplant recipients with longer exposure to daily average temperatures of at least 86°F were more likely to experience worsening kidney function, graft failure and death from any cause, according to researchers.
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1 week ago |
healio.com | Jill Rollet
Key takeaways:Male living kidney donors with normal blood pressure pre-donation had higher risk for kidney function decline vs. female donors. No difference in risk by sex was seen for donors with pre-donation hypertension. BOSTON — Among living kidney donors with normal blood pressure, men were more likely than women to have worsening kidney function during the first 2 years after donation, according to study data. Findings were presented at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings.
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2 weeks ago |
healio.com | Jill Rollet |Richard Smith |Chee Kay Cheung
Key takeaways: At some point during the first 24 weeks, 58% of participants had complete remission of proteinuria. Mean urine protein creatinine ratio declined by 61.9% at week 4 and by 68.9% at week 24. BOSTON — Adults recently diagnosed with immunoglobulin A nephropathy who were assigned sparsentan as first-line therapy experienced rapid and sustained reductions in proteinuria, according to researchers.
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2 weeks ago |
healio.com | Jill Rollet
Read more Among the top three barriers to home dialysis, cited independently by both patients and clinicians, is the need for home-based support, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Disease in 2024. The most recent USRDS Annual Data Report shows 14.5% of U.S. patients with end-stage kidney disease use home dialysis.
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