0 B Vitamin Supplements May Advance Kidney Decline In People With Diabetes

About 40% of people with diabetes will develop kidney disease (diabetic nephropathy); 44% of cases of renal failure are linked to diabetes.

B vitamins lower blood homocysteine levels, high levels of which are thought to raise the risk for diabetic nephropathy.

Can taking B vitamins lower the risk of kidney disease among diabetics? Researchers from Canada set out to answer that question:

Effect Of B-Vitamin Therapy On Progression Of Diabetic Nephropathy, Journal of the American medical Association, April 2010

They reported that people with diabetes and nephropathy who took supplemental vitamin B had a greater decline in kidney function than those taking placebo. Supplementers also had a higher rate of heart attack and stroke.

Patients took a tablet containing placebo or:

• Folic acid (2.5 mg/d)
  
• Vitamin B6 (25 mg/d)
  
• Vitamin B12 (1 mg/d)

The RDA for those vitamins:

• Folic acid (400 mcg/d = 0.4 mg/d)
  
• Vitamin B6 (1.3 to 1.7 mg/d)
  
• Vitamin B12 (2 to 3 mcg/d = .002 to .003 mg/d)

Note the high doses in the supplement.

Not only was the folic acid/B6/B12 blend not helpful, it likely did harm.

Science Daily has a good summary:
High Doses of B Vitamins Associated With Increased Decline in Kidney Function for Patients With Kidney Disease from Diabetes
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0 Excess of Jengkol Risk of Kidney Stones

Jengkol Risk of Kidney Stones - Although the cause odor, but jengkol included in the food that people liked. But if youre a fan of dishes made ​​from jengkol should limit their consumption because can increase risk of kidney stones disease.

Kidney stones may form when the urine is too concentrated. A kidney stone can cause great pain. Pain can be started from the back or the side of the body, below the lowest ribs.

"Jengkol contain jengkolat acid, or acid jengcolid. If consecrations acid is high, then it could increase the risk of crystals in the urinary tract," said dr.Parlindungan Siregar, Sp.PD, from the kidney and hypertension, the department of internal medicine, School of Medicine, in the event media seminar in the framework of the World Kidney Day in Jakarta (06/03/12).

Jengkolat concentration on high acid also causes the sufferer often difficult to urinate or urinary retention occurs.

But jengkol fans need not worry, because the high concentration jengkolat acid can be neutralized with bicarbonate of soda or water or adequate water consumption. "But still, do not overdo it jengkolnya consumption," he said.

0 Obesity Increases Risk Kidney Cancer

Obesity Increases Risk Kidney Cancer | The result of cancer studies center in England show, Obesity increase the risk of kidney cancer until 70 %. Lets compare by smoke that increase the risk of kidney cancer as big as 50 percent.

The causes, obesity trigger hormonal increases that can increase the cancer risk. The England cancer studies center estimate 25 percent cases of kidney cancer in man and 22 percent of kidney cancer in woman causes by fat.

The number of cases of kidney cancer in England in 1975 only 2300 cases increased to 9,000 cases in 2009. Over the last 35 years, obesity rates rose 70 percent in men and 60 percent of women in that country.

According to Director of Information Center for Cancer Studies Sara Hiom to the BBC, Friday (30/3), obesity is also a risk factor for some cancers, like breast cancer, colon, and cervical cancer. Kidney cancer now ranks eighth most common cancer society. The presence of blood in the urine can be used as the initial sign. If detected early, kidney cancer can be cured with surgery.

Kidney cancer expert, who is also professor at the University of Cambridge, England, Tim Eisen, say, 10 years, the Center for Cancer Studies to develop new drugs that damage blood flow to the kidney cancer. However, these drugs only help control the disease, not cure.