MILAN—First-degree relatives of CKD patients have a greater prevalence of CKD risk factors than the general population and should be screened for impaired renal function, two studies suggest. One ...

Kevan Herold, MD, professor of immunobiology and medicine at Yale School of Medicine, talks about some insurers' requirement for patients to have a first-degree relative with type 1 diabetes to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The frequency of polyp diagnoses in close relatives was strongly associated with colorectal cancer risk. Polyp ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . First-degree relatives of individuals with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who harbored certain ...

Primary outcomes of the new study were to learn whether the MRS could predict future CD and determine the relative contributions of different bacterial taxa to the risk of CD. The MRS predicted the ...

Findings show that early screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can be the key to successful treatment or prevention of advanced fibrosis, scarring of the liver Approximately one-fourth of the ...

Approximately one-fourth of the general population worldwide has nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, known as NAFLD, an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to ...

November 13, 2010 (Chicago, Illinois) — Relatively speaking, a presence of atrial fibrillation (AF) in a parent or sibling ups one's own risk of developing the arrhythmia by about 40%, independently ...

(1) A full-time judge whose first-degree relative is an associate of a law firm: (a) is disqualified, without the possibility of remittal, from cases in which such relative personally appears in the ...

Frequent colorectal polyp diagnoses in first- and second-degree relatives are associated with an increased risk for colorectal cancer (CRC), especially early-onset CRC. Researchers evaluated the ...