But having too much cholesterol can lead to health problems. Some of the first clues linking high cholesterol to kidney disease came from a study called the Physicians’ Health Study. In it ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) impairs the kidneys’ ability to filter excess potassium, which may lead to high potassium levels in the blood. Your kidneys filter waste from your blood. Conditions ...

Thirty years ago, kidney stones were considered a disease of the middle-aged white man. Now doctors are increasingly seeing a different kind of patient suffering from the extremely painful ...