Dietary acid reduction by consuming produce or using sodium bicarbonate improves acid-base status and helps protect the kidneys in patients with early-stage CKD. Reducing dietary acid load helps ...

CARBON dioxide retention resulting in an elevation of carbon dioxide tension of body fluids occurs commonly in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The hydration of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid ...

Researchers uncover a previously unrecognized mechanism that may accelerate polycystic kidney disease. For people with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), life can be a constant cycle of symptoms: aches ...

Students will be provided the opportunity for in-depth independent undergraduate research to study signal transduction mechanisms controlling the growth and differentiation of cultured kidney tubule ...

kidney cross section For National Kidney Month, Richard J. Johnson, MD, discusses the association between uric acid levels and risk for chronic kidney disease among patients with gout. Gout is ...

When your body is healthy, it maintains pH balance on its own. However, certain health conditions can cause pH imbalances, which make it difficult for your body to function properly. Sometimes, ...