Healthcare professionals in Western Europe overwhelmingly believed exercise as beneficial for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), yet most kidney units lacked dedicated exercise programmes, ...

A new study finds that the decline of the estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in sedentary older adults can be mitigated through moderate-intensity physical activity. Moderate-intensity ...

Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are typically physically inactive and have self-reported reduced physical functioning. As in the healthy population, reduced physical functioning and ...

A new study published in the journal of Transplantation Proceedings showed that even if renal function improves, skeletal ...

However, long-term exercise suppresses inflammation and oxidative damage through kidney-generated betaine." Betaine is a naturally occurring compound found in foods like beets, spinach and whole ...

Light-intensity physical activity, even doing common, everyday tasks, may be enough to decrease all-cause death across a range of patients with cardio-kidney-metabolic (CKM) syndrome, according to a ...

It is often called a ‘silent killer’ for a reason: more than 14 percent of U.S. adults are currently living with chronic ...

TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech ...