High urea levels in chronic kidney failure might be toxic after all

Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 06:14 in Health & Medicine

It is thought that the elevated levels of urea (the byproduct of protein breakdown that is excreted in the urine) in patients with end-stage kidney failure are not particularly toxic.

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