Journal ArticleKidney360 · February 14, 2025
BACKGROUND: Kidney function is not routinely assessed during pregnancy. Several studies have proposed antepartum kidney function, particularly 2nd trimester kidney function, as a potential predictor of adverse pregnancy outcomes. It has been previously est ...
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Journal ArticleJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities · February 2025
OBJECTIVES: To determine if rates of maternal diabetes vary by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood hardship. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of live births in Chicago from 2010 to 2017. Our sample was restricted to Non-Hispanic White, Non-Hispanic ...
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Journal ArticleKidney Int Rep · September 2024
INTRODUCTION: Individuals of recent West African ancestry develop focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) and hypertension-attributed end-stage kidney disease (HTN-ESKD) at 4 times the rate of White Americans. Two protein-coding variants of the Apolipopr ...
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Journal ArticleKidney International Reports · May 1, 2024
Introduction: Females with kidney disease are at increased risk for pregnancy complications. Few studies have examined pregnancy perspectives of people with kidney disease. Our objective was to examine kidney patients’ perspectives on family planning. Meth ...
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Journal ArticleClin J Am Soc Nephrol · October 1, 2023
BACKGROUND: Potentially inappropriate medications, or medications that generally carry more risk of harm than benefit in older adults, are commonly prescribed to older adults receiving dialysis. Deprescribing, a systematic approach to reducing or stopping ...
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Journal ArticleKidney Int · October 2022
Four decades after the first cases of HIV were reported, kidney disease remains an important comorbidity in people with HIV (PWH). Both HIV-associated nephropathy and immune complex kidney disease were recognized as complications of HIV infection in the ea ...
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Journal ArticleLupus · October 2022
OBJECTIVES: We evaluated the association of lupus nephritis (LN) and adverse pregnancy outcomes in prospective cohorts of pregnant women with SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus). METHODS: We conducted a patient-level pooled analysis of data from three cohor ...
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Journal ArticleJ Natl Med Assoc · June 2022
Chronic Kidney disease (CKD) is more prevalent among women than men in the United States. This review highlights the important yet unique considerations that should be made in the care of women with kidney disease including psychosocial issues, preventive ...
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Journal ArticleHypertension · April 2022
BACKGROUND: Maternal morbidity and mortality are related to prepregnancy hypertensive disease and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) including preeclampsia (41.1% of HDP), eclampsia (1.3% of HDP), and gestational hypertension (39.9% of HDP). Less in ...
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Journal ArticleFront Nephrol · 2022
BACKGROUND: Physical resilience, or the ability to recover after a physical stressor, declines with aging. Efforts to preserve physical resilience in the older dialysis population are critically needed; however, validated, patient-centered measures that ar ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2022
The proportion of women with predialysis chronic kidney disease is higher than that of men, but more men than women start dialysis. Although mortality is higher among men than women in predialysis chronic kidney disease, mortality is similar for men and wo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Soc Hypertens · August 2017
Coarctation of the aorta is an uncommon cause of treatment-resistant hypertension in adults. It is typically detected and treated in infancy or childhood with surgical or endovascular procedures. Most cases of recurrence of coarctation after repair occur i ...
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