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Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death worldwide. Smoking affects all systems of the organism. Smoking stimulates the sympathetic nervous system, increases blood pressure and albuminuria, and decreases renal f...

Oxidative stress has been shown in either hemodialysis patients or smokers in relation with an increased production of free radicals. We want to assess the effects of smoking on oxidative stress markers; malondialdehyde ...

// was aimed to determine the effects of smoking on the blood lead levels in the patients with chronic renal failure undergoing hemodialysis (HD) and healthy subjects. This descriptive study included 21 HD patients (14...

OBJECTIVE: Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common hereditary kidney disease. We presented the ADPKD patients who were not undergoing replacement therapy. MATERIAL and METHODS: Accordin...

Disorders of the vessels, that cause organ demage in Essential Hypertension (HT), may returned at early stage. In this study, vascular disorders were evaluated in 225 HT patients with a mean age of 48.1±8.6 (%77.3 of th...

Nodular glomerulosclerosis, although once identified as a histopathological diagnosis identical with diabetes mellitus (DM), can be seen in many diseases like membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, amyloidosis, fibril...

Renal failure due to primary hypertension (HT) can be declined with precautions at early stages. In our study, glomerulo-tubular vascular function markers of 245 HT patients without end-organ damage have a mean age of 48...

Hyperhomocysteinemia is accepted as an independent risk factor in the progression of atherosclerosis. This relationship is valid in end stage renal disease (ESRD) as it is valid in other medical conditions. Patients with...