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Kidney health
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Blood mutations that accumulate with age tracked faster progression to advanced heart and kidney disease
Most people over 60 carry some cells with age-acquired mutations, usually treated as harmless. Following 451,460 adults for a median of 13.5 years, some of those mutations lined up with organ damage.
Sep 8, 2026
Kidneys filtering faster than normal tracked more small-vessel damage in 7,254 stroke patients
Failing kidneys are known to accompany brain small-vessel disease. Pooling scans and blood tests from 7,254 stroke and mini-stroke patients found the overworking kidney carries a signal too.
Sep 8, 2026
Hip fractures were five times more common in type 1 diabetes, peaking in people in their forties
Bone is not on the checklist for type 1 diabetes, and fracture screening is aimed at people decades older. Comparing 5,035 patients against 12,286 controls found the excess risk starts early.
Sep 8, 2026
A newer drug slowed kidney decline in people whose damage came from blood pressure, not diabetes
Kidney trials are built around diabetes, so the second-largest group has been treated on borrowed evidence. Within a trial of 1,584 patients, the 459 with blood-pressure-driven damage were examined on their own.
Sep 7, 2026