Ask the Doctor Questions about kidney disease? Risk factors?
Signs and symptoms? Are you concerned about yourself, a friend
or family member? Ask Dr. Spry. (New York,NY)– August 1, 2008--
Patients with kidney disease treated with hemodialysis have
problems sleeping that can’t be explained by advanced age or
chronic health conditions, new research shows. “Hemodialysis is
required by patients with severe kidney disease, when the
kidneys can no longer remove enough wastes and fluid from
blood,” Dr. Kerry Willis, Senior VP for Scientific Activities,
National Kidney Foundation explained. Common causes of kidney
disease are diabetes, hypertension, and glomerulonephritis, a
disease caused by injury to the part of the kidney that filters
blood (called glomeruli). “Studies of patients on maintenance
hemodialysis have found that 50% to 80% report some sleep
complaint or excessive daytime somnolence,” Dr. Mark Unruh, a
nephrologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, and
his colleagues report in the August is