First-degree relatives of patients with PHPT face a markedly elevated risk of developing the condition, particularly when the index patient was aged 40 years or younger at diagnosis.

MILAN—First-degree relatives of CKD patients have a greater prevalence of CKD risk factors than the general population and should be screened for impaired renal function, two studies suggest. One ...

Kevan Herold, MD, professor of immunobiology and medicine at Yale School of Medicine, talks about some insurers' requirement for patients to have a first-degree relative with type 1 diabetes to ...

Primary outcomes of the new study were to learn whether the MRS could predict future CD and determine the relative contributions of different bacterial taxa to the risk of CD. The MRS predicted the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . First-degree relatives of individuals with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who harbored certain ...

Findings show that early screening for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease can be the key to successful treatment or prevention of advanced fibrosis, scarring of the liver Approximately one-fourth of the ...

Approximately one-fourth of the general population worldwide has nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, known as NAFLD, an umbrella term for a range of liver conditions affecting people who drink little to ...