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Risk Factors for Common Kidney Stones Are Correlated with Kidney Function Independent of Stone Composition
CONCLUSION: Changes in urine parameters are strongly correlated with eGFR regardless of stone type. Renal function may play a key role in modulating kidney stone risk factors. Strategies to mitigate stone risk may need to vary with kidney function, especially when patient urine or stone composition data is unavailable.PMID:37253348 | DOI:10.1159/000531046
Source: American Journal of Nephrology - May 30, 2023 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Kathryn Simmons Hari Nair Manali Phadke Piruz Motamedinia Dinesh Singh Tinika Montgomery Neera K Dahl Source Type: research

Some Patients Are Reporting Long COVID Recoveries —But Experts Still Don’t Fully Understand Why
A few months ago, Lana Lynch had resigned herself to never getting better. Months after testing positive for COVID-19, she still felt fatigued, still got daily headaches, still had to carefully regulate how much she exerted herself each day. She was coming to terms with her new normal—until she didn’t have to. After receiving her second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in May, Lynch, a 32-year-old from Texas, noticed that she wasn’t quite so tired anymore. She could get through a yoga class without hitting a wall. “I felt like I had some energy,” she says, “but I didn’t...
Source: TIME: Health - June 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news