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Chronic Dehydration in Older Adults: A Silent Threat to Healthy Aging.

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Key takeaways

This review warns that slow, long-running dehydration in older adults is easy to miss. Its signs, such as weakness, constipation, headache, dizziness, unsteady walking and confusion, often get blamed on aging instead. Running low on fluid for months strains the kidneys and raises the risk of sudden kidney injury. It is a discussion article, not a study, so there are no results.

Who did this work

Mattoo TK · Lu H

Source

Article · PubMed, Climate, heat and the kidney · 2026 Sep 1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42690112/