Kidney and its functions The humans have two kidneys located by the two sides of the spine just below the rib cage. The kidneys are small in size and shaped like beans. Kidneys are very important for our survival, scavenging all the wastes and fluids which we generate in different processes of getting energy for…

The kidneys Every human body has two kidneys. Each kidney is of the size of a clenched fist weighing approximately 150 grams, shaped like beans. The kidneys are located on the back on the two sides of the spine below the rib cage.  Though most people have two kidneys, one in ten thousand people have…

Quite a sizable portion of the world population are affected by kidney diseases such as chronic kidney diseases or chronic kidney failure. The developed countries of the world are having a major burden on their health care system on account of morbidity as well as mortality due to CKD. The causes of the kidney diseases…

Importance of kidney   Kidney forms a vital organ of your urinary tract. In humans we have two kidneys located on two sides of the spine. Its job is to filter wastes from the blood and also to remove extra fluids as urine. By removing toxins, acids, other wastes as well as extra fluids from the…

What is CKD Our kidney is a vital organ which continuously and silently removes the wastes from the blood by filtering, the waste substances then are passed out through the urine. We call those conditions as chronic kidney disease ( CKD ) or sometimes as chronic kidney failures when the kidney gradually loses its ability…

In order to find the association of testosterone with CKD, data has been taken from the Bi-directional Mendelian randomization study using the UK Biobank. Single nucleotide polymorphism or SNPs were applied to white British men and women. There were 179,916 men participants while the number of women participants were 212,079. Other methods used were: Use of multivariable…

Sometimes it is really hard for us when we are trying to search for a disease or the symptoms related to it over the internet, the reason being simple as there are a ton of websites available on the internet. Among these most of the websites do not provide high quality information to people which…