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Pruning Polypharmacy: Pill Pushers to Deprescribers in Dialysis?

July 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Causes and Consequences of Polypharmacy When faced with a patient who has a symptom, or a clinical or even laboratory abnormality, the natural tendency for a physician is to prescribe something, anything, in a genuine effort to alleviate the [read more...]

#NephJC Turns Three: A Closer Look at the Online Nephrology Journal Club

June 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Most of us are familiar with the concept of the “Journal Club,” either at our practicing or training institutions. A recent AJKD publication by Topf et al highlights the evolution of NephJC, a fully online nephrology journal club. [read more...]

Hypertension Canada’s 2017 Guidelines

May 11, 2017 // 3 Comments

The Hypertension Canada (previously known as Canadian Hypertension Education Program [CHEP]) guidelines have been updated annually since 1999. The development process of the guidelines begins with review of evidence and is compiled by many [read more...]

Superforecasting: The Kidney Failure Edition

April 18, 2017 // 2 Comments

‘”Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.’” – Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the Palm Pilot, in ‘On Intelligence.’ The [read more...]

#NephMadness 2017: Nutrition Region

March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments

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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2017 | #NephMadness or #NutritionRegion Selection Committee Member for the Nutrition Region: Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh Dr. Kalantar-Zadeh, MPH, PhD, is Professor and Chief of Nephrology & Hypertension at UC [read more...]

#NephMadness 2017: Disparities in Nephrology Region

March 7, 2017 // 3 Comments

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Submit your picks! | NephMadness 2017 | #NephMadness or #DisparitiesRegion Selection Committee Member for the Disparities Region: L. Ebony Boulware Dr. Boulware, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of General Internal [read more...]

Decreasing Sudden Deaths in Dialysis: Drugs, Devices, or Dialytic Developments?

March 1, 2017 // 1 Comment

Nothing seems to work to keep dialysis patients alive longer. Blockbusters like statins and ACE inhibitors have failed in multiple randomized trials in the dialysis population, and even dialysis specific interventions, such as high flux filters or [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2016: State of the Art Lectures

November 22, 2016 // 0 Comments

One of the major highlights of KidneyWk 2016 is the State of the Art Lectures, which are presented daily in the plenary session by a renowned scientist. These are topics of interest in the broader medical sense – and these experts provide a high [read more...]

#KidneyWk 2016: The Poster Sessions

November 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

Amongst the highlights of #KidneyWk 2016 is the session on late breaking clinical trials (previously known as high impact clinical research session). The oral session from Saturday, will be covered in another blog post. In addition, there was also a [read more...]

#CHC16: Home Blood Pressure Monitoring: An Idea Whose Time has Come?

October 21, 2016 // 0 Comments

Hypertension Canada’s 6th annual Canadian Hypertension Congress (#CHC16) is being held from Oct 19-21 2016 in Montreal. AJKD Blog will be providing some highlights from the conference; the entire program is available here. The Vancouver 2010 [read more...]