If you have kidney disease or diabetes, you need to pay close attention to what you eat and drink. Here’s what you can eat to ...

Adopting a kidney-friendly diet like the DASH or Mediterranean diet and managing sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and protein intake may help improve GFR by reducing kidney strain. Maintaining heart ...

In patients with chronic kidney disease, the loss of podocytes—part of the kidney's glomerular filtration barrier—causes irreversible disease progression. So far, physicians and researchers have found ...

Chronic kidney disease often produces no obvious symptoms until it has already progressed, which means millions of people in ...

A fasting-mimicking diet (FMD) restored kidney function in a rodent model and promoted renoprotection in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) by reducing proteinuria and improving endothelial ...

Kidney disease can affect how much water your body holds on to, causing weight gain. Weight loss may lower your risk of developing kidney disease. Lifestyle and food changes and medications may ...

Adults with prediabetes were more than twice as likely as those with normal glucose levels to experience a faster decline in kidney function over time, according to new data from a long-term ...

Existing therapies for kidney disease have largely treated complications, symptoms or late manifestations of disease, and have had limited disease-modifying effects. Encouragingly, in recent trials, ...

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified a previously unrecognized way the kidneys regulate water balance—an advance that ...