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Alternative News:
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Pine bark extract may benefit blood pressure-related kidney health - Nutra
USA, 3/5/10 - "55 hypertensive patients to participate in the randomized,
controlled study. Subjects were assigned to receive Ramipril [an ACE inhibitor]
(10 mg per day), and 29 of these people were randomly selected to also receive
Pycnogenol (150 mg per day) ... After six months in the Ramipril-only group the
albumin levels decreased by 26 per cent to 64 mg per 24-hour period, while
additional Pycnogenol produced levels that averaged 39 mg per 24-hour period,
equivalent to a 57 per cent decrease ... Statistically significant decreases in
patients’ blood pressure were also observed, with systolic and diastolic blood
pressures dropping by more than 30 and 8 per cent, respectively in the Ramipril-only
group, and by a further 3 to 6 per cent in the combination group ... Diastolic
and systolic blood flow improved by 8 and 12 per cent, in the combination group"
- [Abstract] - See
Pine Bark/Pycnogenol products at iHerb.
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Kidney
flow and function in hypertension: protective effects of pycnogenol in
hypertensive participants--a controlled study - J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther.
2010 Mar;15(1):41-6 - "evaluated the effects of Pycnogenol as an adjunct to
angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)-inhibitor ramipril treatment of hypertensive
patients presenting with early signs of renal function problems. One group of 26
patients was medicated with 10 mg ramipril per day only; a second group of 29
patients took Pycnogenol in addition to the ACE inhibitor over a period of 6
months ... Urinary albumin decreased from 87 +/- 23 to 64 +/- 16 mg/d with
ramipril only. Additional Pycnogenol lowered albumin significantly better from
91 +/- 25 to 39 +/- 13 mg/day (P < .05). In both groups, serum creatinine was
lowered; however, only in the combination treatment group did the effect reached
statistical significance. In both groups, CRP levels decreased from 2.1 to 1.8
with ramipril and from 2.2 to 1.1 with the ramipril-Pycnogenol combination; the
latter reached statistical significance. Kidney cortical flow velocity was
investigated by Doppler color duplex ultrasonography. Both systolic and
diastolic flow velocities increased significantly after 6 months medication with
ramipril. The addition of Pycnogenol to the regimen statistically significantly
further enhanced kidney cortical flow velocities, by 8% for diastolic flow and
12% for systolic flow, relative to values found for the group taking ramipril
only" - See
Pine Bark/Pycnogenol products at iHerb.
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Omega-3 may boost kidney health in diabetics: Study - Nutra USA, 2/3/10
- "Our results showed a significant decrease in
serum creatinine level after fish-oil supplement in Type 2 diabetes mellitus
patients" - See
Mega Twin EPA at iHerb
and
Jarrow Max DHA at iHerb.
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Fish-oil
supplement has neutral effects on vascular and metabolic function but
improves renal function in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus -
Diabet Med. 2010 Jan;27(1):54-60 - "serum creatinine
was lower (-4.5 mumol/l, P = 0.01) in fish-oil-treated patients as compared
with control subjects" - See
Mega Twin EPA at iHerb
and
Jarrow Max DHA at iHerb.
Other News:
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Protein in the urine: A warning sign for cognitive decline - Science
Daily, 11/21/10 - "low amounts of albumin in the
urine, at levels not traditionally considered clinically significant,
strongly predict faster cognitive decline in older women ... participants
with a urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio of >5 mcg/mg at the start of the
study experienced cognitive decline at a rate 2 to 7 times faster in all
cognitive measures than that attributed to aging alone over an average 6
years of follow-up"
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Serum
Creatinine and Prostate Cancer Risk in a Prospective Study - Cancer
Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2009 Sep 15 - "Cases had
significantly higher prediagnostic serum creatinine concentrations compared
with controls (medians of 1.13 versus 1.10 mg/dL, respectively; P = 0.004).
Serum creatinine was associated with a significantly greater risk of
prostate cancer (multivariate odds ratio, 2.23; 95% confidence interval,
1.33-3.75 for highest versus lowest quartile), with a significant trend (P
trend = 0.0008)"
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