Kidney research, 2026-09-10
No new kidney-specific research today — focus remains on heart, brain, and general wellness
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Today's research updates center on heart, eye, and mental health — none directly tied to stage 3 chronic kidney disease.
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A preclinical mouse study on heart stiffness and a personal meditation story lack evidence linking them to kidney outcomes.
Today's sweep found no studies or reports directly addressing chronic kidney disease. Most items discussed heart, brain, or general wellness topics without connecting to kidney health. One webinar on early CKD detection is upcoming but has not yet released results.
Gut Microbiota and Their Metabolites in Acute Kidney Injury: Classification, Mechanisms, and Therapeutic Potential
This review sorts through what gut bacteria and the chemicals they make do during sudden kidney injury, which is a fast drop in kidney function rather than the slow kind. It...
Reciprocal mediation of immuno-inflammation and insulin resistance in the risk of chronic kidney disease among patients with coronary artery disease: insights from neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and triglyceride-glucose index
In people with clogged heart arteries, researchers checked two cheap blood markers: one for inflammation, based on the ratio of two white blood cell types, and one for insulin...
Birth characteristics and growth outcome in children with nephropathic cystinosis compared with other chronic kidney disease entities prior to kidney replacement therapy
Researchers compared birth size and later growth in children with nephropathic cystinosis, a rare inherited disease that damages the kidneys, against children with other kinds of...
Random Urinary Calcium/Creatinine Ratio as a Predictor of Dehydration in Hypercalcemic and Normocalcemic Patients
This study tested whether one urine sample, comparing calcium against creatinine, can flag dehydration. Creatinine is a waste product used to judge how concentrated the urine is....
Cardio-Renal Interaction Between NT-proBNP and Renal Function Across Chronic Kidney Disease Stages in Patients with Heart Failure
This study looked at NT-proBNP, a blood marker of heart strain, in people with heart failure at different stages of kidney disease. Weak kidneys raise this marker on their own,...
SGLT2 Inhibitors in Nephrolithiasis: Emerging Evidence and What Urologists Need to Know
This review pulls together what is known about SGLT2 inhibitors and kidney stones. SGLT2 inhibitors are diabetes drugs that also slow kidney decline. The evidence so far comes from...
Comprehensive Haematological Alterations in Chronic Kidney Disease: Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Clinical Implications in Patients Attending Private Hospitals in Baghdad
Doctors in Baghdad looked at blood test changes in people with chronic kidney disease at private hospitals. Kidney disease often lowers red blood cells, which causes tiredness and...
A comparative real-world analysis of finerenone and steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in patients with chronic kidney disease
This study compares finerenone, a newer kidney and heart drug, with older drugs in the same family such as spironolactone. It uses real-world records of people with chronic kidney...
Vasculitis Syndromes with Renal Involvement: A Review from a Case Series.
This review explains vasculitis, which is inflammation of blood vessels, when it attacks the kidneys, using real patient cases. Two forms, microscopic polyangiitis and...
Pharmacological inhibition of endoplasmic reticulum stress ameliorates polystyrene nanoplastic-induced renal injury in female Wistar rats.
Tiny plastic particles, called nanoplastics, were given to rats to damage their kidneys on purpose. The researchers then tested a drug, 4-PBA, that calms a stress response inside...
Abdominal aortic calcification index and prognosis in patients with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis
This review pooled many earlier studies that scored calcium buildup in the main artery of the belly on scans in people with kidney disease. It asked whether a higher score goes...
Plasma neurofilament light chain in type 2 diabetes: Associations with diabetic peripheral neuropathy, age, and renal function in a pilot cross-sectional study
This small study measured a blood marker of nerve damage, called neurofilament light chain, in people with type 2 diabetes. It checked whether the marker tracks with nerve damage...
Addressing the Pathophysiology of Venous Thrombosis and Chronic Kidney Disease in Sickle Cell Trait Using a Mouse Model
Researchers built a mouse model to study why sickle cell trait is tied to blood clots in veins and to long-term kidney damage. Sickle cell trait means carrying one copy of the...
Chronic obstructive pyelonephritis - Female, 71 - Tissue image [6270730022336411]
This is a stored tissue image from a 71-year-old woman with a long-running kidney infection that blocked urine flow. It is a picture filed for teaching and research, not a study....
Personalized Sequential Nephron Blockade for Diuretic Resistance in Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Narrative Review for the Cardiorenal Clinician
Doctors wrote a guide on what to do when one water pill stops clearing fluid in people with heart failure. The idea is to use several drugs together, each one blocking salt and...
Clinical characteristics and prognosis of IgA nephropathy and comorbid diabetic kidney disease
This study looked at people who have two kidney diseases at once: IgA nephropathy and diabetic kidney disease. IgA nephropathy is when the immune system damages the kidney's tiny...
Latent histopathological activation of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system in children with low birth weight
Researchers examined kidney tissue from children who were born small, at a low birth weight. They found quiet signs that the hormone system controlling blood pressure and salt,...
Effect of Empagliflozin in Patients With eGFR Between 10 and 20 ml/Min/1.73m2
This trial tests empagliflozin, a diabetes drug that also protects kidneys, in people whose kidneys are barely working. Their kidney filtering rate (eGFR) is between 10 and 20,...
Epidemiology And Multimorbidity Burden Of Arthritis Among Elderly Patients: A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study In South India
This hospital record posted to an open repository counts how common arthritis is among older patients in South India and what other illnesses they carry alongside it. Patients were...
Clinical, Social, and Healthcare Factors Associated with Nutritional Status in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Multidimensional Approach.
Researchers checked the nutrition of 97 adults with ALS, a disease that slowly weakens the muscles, at one point in time. They looked for which clinical, social, and care-system...
Effects of Brussels Chicory and Concurrent Exercise Training on HDL Function and Subclass Profiles in Overweight College Students: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.
This was a small pilot study in overweight college students who were split at random into three groups. One group took a supplement made from Brussels chicory, a leafy vegetable...
Beyond Bone Health: Exploring the "Heart-Brain-Bone" Axis Modulated by Lipid-Soluble Nutrients (Omega-3, Vitamin D3, and Vitamin K2).
This is a review article that proposes a way of thinking, not a study with results. The authors argue that heart disease, memory loss, and thinning bones share common causes, such...
The Circadian System and Chronic Kidney Disease Risk: Epidemiological Evidence.
About 10% of people worldwide have chronic kidney disease. This review gathers past studies on whether a disturbed body clock raises that risk, looking at night shift work,...
Development and preliminary psychometric evaluation of an oral health questionnaire for chronic kidney disease (CKD-OHQ)
Researchers built a questionnaire that asks people with kidney disease about their teeth, gums, and mouth problems. They gave it to a first group of patients to see if the...
Oral beta-D-glucan challenge to assess gut permeability in subjects receiving haemodialysis
People on dialysis drank a sugar from yeast cell walls, beta-D-glucan, to test whether their gut lining leaks. If the sugar shows up in the blood, the gut wall is letting things...
Alterations in physical performance and body composition in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease detected by a comprehensive multidimensional analysis
Researchers measured strength, movement, and body makeup in people with kidney disease who are not on dialysis. They looked at several measures together instead of one at a time,...
Inspiratory Muscle Training During Hemodialysis
This trial tests training the breathing muscles during dialysis sessions in adults on regular hemodialysis. Everyone spends 12 weeks with no study training first. Then people are...
Brain health strategies in middle-aged individuals with mild neurocognitive disorder: a scoping review.
This is a broad survey of the published literature, not a study of people. It looks at what middle-aged adults with mild thinking and memory problems are advised to do to protect...
Prevalence of dementia and BPSD in community-dwelling older adults with advanced care needs: a nationwide survey in Taiwan.
This national survey in Taiwan covered 11,297 older adults who need heavy day-to-day care, including some on dialysis. It counted how many had dementia and how many had the...
Network analysis of mental health literacy and depressive/anxiety symptoms in patients under maintenance hemodialysis: a cross-sectional study of multicenter data.
Researchers surveyed 757 people on long-term dialysis at 6 hospitals in Sichuan, China. They measured depression, anxiety, and how well people understand mental health, then mapped...
eNOS Uncoupling, Shear-Stress Tolerance, and the Two-Threshold Model of Post-Exertional Malaise in Long COVID: A Mechanistic Hypothesis With Implications for Physiotherapy and Recovery Protocols.
This paper puts forward an idea to be tested, not a study with data. The authors propose that in some people with long COVID, the crash that follows exertion comes from a fault in...
Sleep Quality and Falls Risk in the ELSA Study: A Cross-Sectional and Prospective Cohort Study.
Using data from a long-running English study of adults aged 50 and over, researchers compared sleep quality with the risk of falling. They looked both at one moment in time and at...
Long COVID-19 in Spain: A Phenomenological Exploration of Health, Support, and Systemic Challenges.
This study interviewed 36 people in Spain who live with long COVID, across 17 provinces over 10 months. It is a listening study: it reports what people said about their health, the...
Continuous biosensing and real-time metabolic monitoring in obesity, diabetes, and diabetic kidney disease: implications for precision diabetes and kidney care
This review covers wearable sensors that track blood sugar and other body chemistry continuously in people with obesity, diabetes and diabetic kidney disease. The authors argue...
Prednisolone-Induced Acneiform Eruption with Facial Flushing in A Kidney Transplant Recipient: A Probable Adverse Drug Reaction
A kidney transplant patient developed an acne-like rash and facial flushing after taking prednisolone, a steroid used to stop the body rejecting the new kidney. This is a report on...
Supraceliac Aortobifemoral Bypass for Live Donor Renal Transplant
Surgeons describe one patient whose main blood vessels were too diseased to accept a kidney from a living donor the usual way. They built a bypass from the upper part of the aorta,...
Florida Health and Health Care: A Status Report.
This report compares Florida's health and health care with national numbers, covering fast population growth, gaps in insurance, thin public health funding, and a large share of...
IV DrugRef PWA
This is a released app for looking up how to give drugs through an IV line. It is a software posting, not research, and it is not about kidney disease. There are no results of any...
Hearing impairment among haemodialysis patients with chronic kidney disease: a South African perspective
This paper raises hearing loss as a problem for South Africans on dialysis for kidney failure. It is written as a perspective on the issue in one country, looking at who is...
Understanding variation between kidney centres in implementation of tolvaptan in the management of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease: a multiple case study
Kidney centres do not all use tolvaptan the same way. Tolvaptan is a drug that slows cyst growth in polycystic kidney disease, an inherited condition that damages the kidneys over...
Urinary albumin fraction and tubulointerstitial injury: an association shaped by diagnostic composition
This study looked at what share of the protein in urine is albumin, and whether that share tracks damage to the kidney's tubes and surrounding tissue. The authors found the link...
Explainable Machine Learning for Chronic Kidney Disease Classification from Routine Urinalysis and Diabetes Records
Researchers built a computer model that flags chronic kidney disease using routine urine tests and diabetes records. The model is designed to show which factors drove each...
Prevalence of chronic kidney disease in rheumatoid arthritis and implications for the use of DMARDs – an in-hospital analysis
Researchers counted how many hospital patients with rheumatoid arthritis also had chronic kidney disease, and what that meant for their arthritis drugs. Several of those drugs are...
Adequacy of dialysis in children and adolescents: more than just Kt/V
This is a review article arguing that judging dialysis in children takes more than one number. That number, Kt/V, measures how much waste a session clears from the blood. The...
Economic Development and Chronic Kidney Disease Prevalence: Evidence of Nonlinearity from a Global Panel, 1995–2023
Researchers compared how rich countries are with how common kidney disease is there, using data from many countries between 1995 and 2023. The link is not a straight line: the rate...
Diabetes, chronic kidney disease, and annual hospital costs in older patients: A cost decomposition analysis
This study measured what hospital care costs each year for older patients who have both diabetes and kidney disease. It breaks the total down to show which parts of care drive the...
CKD Specific Telemonitoring Platform to Minimize Adverse Outcomes in High Risk CKD Patients
Doctors are testing a virtual care platform called VIEWER for people with kidney disease who are at high risk. They want to know if adding it to normal care cuts emergency room...