Heart healthy lifestyle may cut kidney disease patients' risk of kidney failure
Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Compared with kidney disease patients who had zero or one heart healthy lifestyle component in the ideal range, those with two, three, and four ideal factors had progressively lower risks for kidney failure over four years. No kidney disease patients with five to seven ideal factors developed kidney failure. Patients' risk of dying during the study followed a similar trend.