Chronic Kidney Disease Poisons Patients’ Hearts, Scientists Discover
Scientists have discovered an answer to the longstanding mystery of why more than half of patients with chronic kidney disease ultimately die of cardiovascular problems: Their kidneys produce a substance that poisons the heart. The researchers, at UVA Health and Mount Sinai, say the discovery could let doctors identify people at risk and develop new treatments to help prevent and treat heart failure for these patients. “Kidney and heart disease can develop silently, so they are often discovered only after damage has already been done,” said researcher Uta Erdbrügger, MD, an internal medicine physician-scientist with the University of Virginia School
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