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Inflammation as a therapeutic target to improve kidney and cardiovascular outcomes

Key takeaways

Kidney disease keeps the body in a state of constant low level inflammation. That inflammation damages the kidneys, clogs arteries, and strains the heart. This is a review article: it gathers what is already known and argues that drugs aimed at inflammation could protect kidneys and hearts together. It reports no new results and no trial data of its own.

Source

Paper · Nature Reviews Nephrology · 2026-09-04
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-026-01117-6