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Children’s Mercy Hospitals Inch Closer to Cause of Chronic Kidney Disease

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Monday, April 6, 2009   

Kansas City, MO - Studies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control show that the number of overweight children in America is increasing rapidly, and now kidney stones in children, which were once a medical rarity, are being seen with increasing frequency. In Missouri, Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics is continuing its research on chronic kidney disease in children by conducting an international study, whose findings are showing physicians how to treat it.

This first-ever such study is led by Dr. Brad Warady, chief of nephrology at Children's Mercy. He says they're monitoring close to 600 children all over North America, and the study has revealed that the level of kidney impairment, the cause of kidney disease, and race, are linked to the presence of protein in the urine.

Dr. Warady says that with these results chronic kidney disease could soon be effectively treated.

"Over the next ten years I think we're going to get closer to completing that puzzle, which will allow us to have a really complete understanding of chronic kidney disease."

Dr. Warady says the study has also developed a new equation to better estimate the kidney function of a child, changing previous diagnosis formulas. He says the findings will be useful for physicians around the world as they strive to prevent kidney disease progression in young patients.

"Every week and every month we come up with something new that I think helps us get a better understanding of something that we've treated for decades, but obviously didn't completely understand."

The National Institutes of Health has been funding Dr. Warady's project. The study results are in the March 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN).



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