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      Gout After Living Kidney Donation: A Matched Cohort Study

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          In the general population, high serum uric acid concentration is a risk factor for gout. It is unknown whether donating a kidney increases a living donor's risk of gout as serum uric acid concentration increases in donors after nephrectomy.

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          The lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease have not been reported across the age spectrum in black adults and white adults. We conducted a meta-analysis at the individual level using data from 18 cohort studies involving a total of 257,384 black men and women and white men and women whose risk factors for cardiovascular disease were measured at the ages of 45, 55, 65, and 75 years. Blood pressure, cholesterol level, smoking status, and diabetes status were used to stratify participants according to risk factors into five mutually exclusive categories. The remaining lifetime risks of cardiovascular events were estimated for participants in each category at each age, with death free of cardiovascular disease treated as a competing event. We observed marked differences in the lifetime risks of cardiovascular disease across risk-factor strata. Among participants who were 55 years of age, those with an optimal risk-factor profile (total cholesterol level, <180 mg per deciliter [4.7 mmol per liter]; blood pressure, <120 mm Hg systolic and 80 mm Hg diastolic; nonsmoking status; and nondiabetic status) had substantially lower risks of death from cardiovascular disease through the age of 80 years than participants with two or more major risk factors (4.7% vs. 29.6% among men, 6.4% vs. 20.5% among women). Those with an optimal risk-factor profile also had lower lifetime risks of fatal coronary heart disease or nonfatal myocardial infarction (3.6% vs. 37.5% among men, <1% vs. 18.3% among women) and fatal or nonfatal stroke (2.3% vs. 8.3% among men, 5.3% vs. 10.7% among women). Similar trends within risk-factor strata were observed among blacks and whites and across diverse birth cohorts. Differences in risk-factor burden translate into marked differences in the lifetime risk of cardiovascular disease, and these differences are consistent across race and birth cohorts. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.).
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            Gestational hypertension and preeclampsia in living kidney donors.

            Young women wishing to become living kidney donors frequently ask whether nephrectomy will affect their future pregnancies.
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              Regulation of uric acid excretion by the kidney.

              It has been known for many years that the kidney plays a major role in uric acid homeostasis, as more than 70% of urate excretion is renal. Furthermore, hyperuricemia in gout is most commonly the result of relative urate underexcretion, as the kidney has enormous capacity for urate reabsorption. A clear understanding of the mechanisms of renal handling of urate has been hampered by the differences between humans and animal models. The power of human genetics and genome-wide association studies has now provided new insight into the molecular mechanisms of urate transport by identifying the transporters that have critical roles in urate transport. This review surveys the new evidence for a molecular model of urate transport in the renal proximal tubule and uses these data to refute the popular four-component model for urate transport that has long been in vogue. It also discusses data that help us understand the relation of diuretics to hyperuricemia, losartan-induced uricosuria, variations in uric acid levels in hyperglycemia, and the effects of dairy diets on serum urate levels. In the end, several of these clinical findings are explained, and the remaining gaps in our knowledge will become evident.
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                Journal
                American Journal of Kidney Diseases
                American Journal of Kidney Diseases
                Elsevier BV
                02726386
                June 2015
                June 2015
                : 65
                : 6
                : 925-932
                Article
                10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.01.017
                25818677
                cfea6c2e-0188-414f-80bc-e28e43f9b0d5
                © 2015
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