Nephrology Roundup: Antibiotics and Kidney Stones, CV Risk in ADPKD, and More

The editors of Consultant360 have compiled a breakdown of top stories and breaking nephrology news for the month of May. See what you may have missed.

Oral antibiotic exposure likely plays a role in the risk for nephrolithiasis.

Certain patient populations were found to have a higher risk than others. Read More

Experts have identified a new marker that could predict cardiovascular risk among patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).

This finding emerged from a study of 41 ADPKD patients with hypertension and 89 patients with essential hypertension. Read More

Could coaching patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) to drink more water lessen the rate of decline in kidney function?

Researchers investigated this potential relationship further in a cohort of 631 patients from 9 centers in Ontario, Canada. Read More

Achieving control of multiple risk factors may help reduce the elevated risk of mortality and cardiovascular events often seen among patients with diabetes and CKD.

To read more about the effects of multiple risk factor control in this patient population, click here.

SEE ALSO: How Long-Term Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors Affects the Kidneys (Podcast)

Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly, internal medicine physician and nephrologist, discusses his recent study and how kidney disease can be prevented in this population.

For more podcasts, click here.