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Removal of mitochondrial health to improve the outcome of acute kidney injury

Acute kidney injury is the most common renal disease with no effective treatment. Acute kidney injury affects 3-7% of hospitalized patients with a patient mortality rate that exceeds that of breast and prostate cancers, heart failure and diabetes combined. After adverse kidney...

Describing Gut Microbiota in People with Chronic Kidney Disease

Lay Abstract A Deep Dive Into Understanding Gut Bacteria in Kidney Disease Background: People with kidney disease have more inflammation compared to the general population. This inflammation can show up in many ways, such as making gut health worse by damaging the good bact...

KIdney aNd blooD prESsure ouTcomes in Childhood Cancer Survivors (KINDEST CCS)

Supervisor(s): Michael Zappitelli Lay Summary Background : Due to better cancer research and treatments, more children with cancer are surviving, and for longer. However, childhood cancer survivors (CCS) are at high risk for many complications later in life. During cance...

Can Treatment with Lipid-lowering Medications Attenuate the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in patie

Supervisor(s): Aminu Bello Lay summary Background: Heart disease and strokes are major concerns for people undergoing dialysis, a treatment for severe kidney failure. Patients on dialysis have a significantly higher risk of serious medical conditions, such as heart att...

Body Image and Self-Esteem: Men's Health

Body Image & Self Esteem Part 2: Men’s Health will share perspectives from men with kidney disease. Our patient partners will discuss issues like stretch marks, hair and weight changes, dialysis access and dating with CKD (chronic kidney disease). This webinar will empower yo...

Liz's Story

We all want our lives to have meaning. We all want to feel appreciated and loved. My mom’s life was all of that, and now, I’m doing my best to follow her loving example.  My mom was a wonderful person. She was a woman ahead of her time, having the good fortune to go to McGi...

Canadians Need to Know More About Kidney Health

March is Kidney Health Month A recent poll conducted by Ipsos on behalf of The Kidney Foundation of Canada found that the majority of Canadians – 59% – admit they don’t know anything about kidney disease and 48% of people don’t know if they themselves may be at risk 1 . Fur...

Vitamin D and frailty: longitudinal assessment of risk factors in adults with diabetes and chronic k

Lay Summary One of the most common problems in people with kidney disease is the high frequency of having several coinciding medical conditions such as osteoporosis and frailty leading to bone fractures, falls, lifelong health problems and reduced health related quality o...

Tailoring a Pathway for Mental Health Care for Albertans on Dialysis

General Audience Summary “I have met many, many medical staff that are scared of depression and anxiety. Any mental health issues - they don’t even wanna talk about them, period. So, if they’re asking the depression question and think, ‘Oh my goodness. He is a seven out of ...

Access and barriers to advanced kidney failure therapies among patients from African, Caribbean and

Lay Abstract On average, African, Caribbean or Black (ACB) Canadians have high risk of kidney failure but have less than half the chance of receiving a live donor kidney transplant, which is the best treatment for kidney failure. Therefore, ACB patients with kidney failure ...

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