Displaying items by tag: Division of Nephrology
Blood tests in obese African-American teenage girls reveal immune system changes which ‘prime the system’ to develop cardiovascular disease later in life.
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Lower blood pressure target of 120 mm Hg greatly reduces cardiovascular complications and deaths in older adults.
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Doctors at UAB are developing new ways to increase the number of living donors via the Incompatible Kidney Transplant Program.
UAB professors who developed a new area of translational cardio-renal research are among 15 professors identified as today’s leaders in the field.
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David Pollock, Ph.D., professor in the Division of Nephrology, recently visited Cuba with a delegation from the American Physiological Society to sign a historic agreement for research collaboration with leaders of the Cuban Society of Physiological Sciences.
UAB will receive funding from the AHA over the next four years to complete projects in population health, clinical and basic science, focused on high blood pressure.
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Kidney recipients infected only with HIV do as well as uninfected recipients, but HIV-infected recipients co-infected with hepatitis C virus have poorer outcomes.
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Jennifer Pollock, Ph.D., recently received the Bodil M. Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award from the American Physiological Society.
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Consuming fried foods and sugar-sweetened beverages is linked to a 50 percent increase in risk of death, according to a new study in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Immune system cells and a drug used for treating rheumatoid arthritis will be studied in an effort to reduce inflammation in kidney transplants and improve long-term function.
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