Globally, diabetes is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal
disease, which are major risk factors for cardiovascular disease and death. Despite this …

It is increasingly apparent that not only is a cure for the current worldwide diabetes epidemic
required, but also for its major complications, affecting both small and large blood vessels …

Background: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors improve heart failure–related
outcomes. The mechanisms underlying these benefits are not well understood, but diuretic …

1 This publication is a World Health Organization (WHO) guideline. A WHO guideline is any
document, whatever its title, containing WHO recommendations about health interventions …

The life sciences are currently being transformed by an unprecedented wave of
developments in molecular analysis, which include important advances in instrumental …

This review examines the current knowledge of water intake as it pertains to human health,
including overall patterns of intake and some factors linked with intake, the complex …

Objective: To determine prevalence, awareness, treatment and control of hypertension and
the 24-h sodium excretion (24h-UNa) in the Portuguese adult population and to examine …

Diabet. Med. 27, 136–142 (2010) Abstract Considerable data have accumulated over the
past 20 years, indicating that the human kidney is involved in the regulation of glucose via …

The renal nerves are the communication link between the central nervous system and the
kidney. In response to multiple peripheral and central inputs, efferent renal sympathetic …

BACKGROUND: Hyponatremia is the most common electrolyte abnormality in hospitalized
individuals. METHODS: To investigate the association between serum sodium concentration …