Kidney and Dialysis, Volume 3, Issue 3

Cardiovascular medicine, especially for ischemic heart disease, has evolved and advanced over the past two decades, leading to substantially improved outcomes for patients, even those with chronic kidney disease. However, the prognosis for patients w...

Nonadherence to exercise-related trials in hemodialysis (HD) patients is a significant burden worldwide. To address this issue, we assessed the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a combined pre-habilitative virtual-reality-based mindfulness (VRM...

Recently, as the number of elderly dialysis patients has been increasing, complications associated with low nutritional status such as infectious disease have had a strong influence on the prognosis of dialysis patients. Nutritional disorders are cau...

Body composition (BC), a measure of body fat mass (FM), lean body mass (LBM), and bone mineral content (BMC), can be used as a predictor of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF). Prior studies have established a relationship between BC and VO2max in health...

The transcription factor encoded by the PAX2 gene plays a significant role in the development of the urogenital tract, eyes, ears, and central nervous system. Heterozygous mutations in the PAX2 gene cause renal coloboma syndrome, a rare autosomal dom...

Hyperkalemia is associated with an increased risk of mortality and is a common complication in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Despite the prevalence of hyperkalemia, current real-world data suggest that serum potassium levels are not eff...