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Health Policy, Disparities, and the Kidney

WebKidney care and public policy have been linked for 40 years, with various consequences to outcomes. The 1972 Social Security Amendment, Section 2991, expanded Medicare …

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Health Literacy: Emerging Evidence and Applications in Kidney …

WebHealth literacy represents the communication among patients, their social networks, providers, and health systems to promote patients’ understanding and engagement in …

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Realizing the Goals of the Advancing American Kidney Health …

WebThe Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health aimed to slow the progression of kidney disease, increase access to kidney transplantation, and expand home dialysis. …

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Challenges and Opportunities in Expanding Home Hemodialysis …

WebThe Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative has set an aggressive target for home dialysis growth in the United States, and expanding both peritoneal dialysis and home …

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Value-Based Care and Kidney Disease: Emergence and Future …

WebThe United States health care system has increasingly embraced value-based programs that reward improved outcomes and lower costs. Health care value, defined as quality …

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Magnesium and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease: Benefits …

WebExperimental and clinical studies have demonstrated that magnesium deficiency leads to hypertension, insulin resistance, and endothelial dysfunction, and is associated with an …

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Magnesium and Cardiovascular Disease

WebMagnesium is the most abundant intracellular divalent cation and essential for maintaining normal cellular physiology and metabolism, acting as a cofactor of numerous enzymes, …

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Health Policy Trends in Kidney Disease

WebAs policy “wonks” interested in the changing fabric of payment and regulatory policies across nephrology, we are delighted to share this policy-focused issue of Advances in Chronic …

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Women's Health and Kidney Disease

WebWomen's health in kidney disease continues to remain understudied in recent years. Women with kidney disease often have sexual dysfunction and decreased fertility due to …

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Innovations to Increase Home Hemodialysis Utilization: The …

WebA large proportion of patients undergoing incident dialysis start in-center hemodialysis with suboptimal preparation and predialysis education. Transitional care units deliver a …

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Federated Learning in Health care Using Structured Medical Data

WebThe success of machine learning–based studies is largely subjected to accessing a large amount of data. However, accessing such data is typically not feasible within a single …

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The Physician Quality Reporting Initiative: A Practical Approach to

WebThe Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) is a voluntary program in which Medicare encourages eligible physicians in the United States to report on specific quality …

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Magnesium and Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease: …

WebOver the past few decades, population-based cohort studies have indicated that low magnesium status is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, along …

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Etiology and Management of Edema: A Review

WebThe development of peripheral edema can often pose a significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for practitioners due to its association with a wide variety of …

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Salt and Water: A Review of Hypernatremia

WebSerum sodium disorders are generally a marker of water balance in the body. Thus, hypernatremia is most often caused by an overall deficit of total body water. Other …

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The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and Organ Donation in the …

WebThe Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA) and its periodic revisions provide a template for the creation and amendment of legislation to adjust public policy and align it with …

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Acupuncture and Kidney Disease

WebAcupuncture for kidney pain. Acupuncture has been used in China and partly accepted in western countries, mainly as a pain-relieving method. Both acute and chronic pain is a …

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A History of Obesity, or How What Was Good Became Ugly and …

WebChronic food shortage and malnutrition have been the scourge of humankind from the dawn of history. The current worldwide epidemic of obesity, now recognized as a public health …

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Physical Functioning: Definitions, Measurement, and …

WebAn individual must have adequate levels of physical functioning to perform activities of daily living (ADLs), such as self-care and home management, and instrumental ADLs (IADLs), …

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