Individuals age> 65 years old are the fastest expanding population demographic throughout
the developed world. Consequently, more aged patients than before are receiving …

Age-associated loss of kidney function has been recognized for decades. With aging, many
subjects exhibit progressive decreases in glomerular filtration rate and renal blood flow, with …

Background Increased mortality risk is associated with short-term temperature variability.
However, to our knowledge, there has been no comprehensive assessment of the …

Population aging evokes doomsday economic and sociological prognostication, despite a
minority of older people suffering significant dependency and the potential for advances in …

Aging is known to be associated with an increased prevalence of multiple chronic diseases,
which frequently causes the use of complex therapeutic regimens. The aging process is …

As for the whole human body, the kidney undergoes age-related changes which translate in
an inexorable and progressive decline in renal function. Renal aging is a multifactorial …

Renal aging, by itself, is associated with alterations in renal morphology and a decline in
renal function, which is accelerated and/or accentuated by diseases such as diabetes …

Aging kidneys undergo structural and functional changes that decrease autoregulatory
capacity and increase susceptibility to acute injury. Acute kidney injury associates with …

Several studies have found that uric acid (UA) level is associated with an increased risk for
hypertension, but the association could be confounded by metabolic factors that were not …

Three decades have passed since a series of studies indicated that the aging kidney was
characterized by increased susceptibility to nephrotoxic injury. Data from these experimental …