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Vaccines and Kidney Disease: Protecting Your Health with Immunizations

Vaccines help protect people with CKD from serious complications from diseases. Learn about safety, effectiveness, and addressing concerns with your h...

Tests and procedures,

Treatments and therapies

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This information will help you learn more about kidney health.

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Treatments and therapies

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAs)

GLP-1 RAs help slow CKD and lower heart disease risk for people with type 2 diabetes and/or obesity, but it’s important to weigh risks and benefits.

Treatments and therapies

Immunosuppressants (Anti-rejection Medicines)

Immunosuppressants (anti-rejection medicines), are medicines that keep kidney transplants from being attacked by the immune system.

Immunosuppressants,

Treatments and therapies

Assistance Programs Offered by Pharmaceutical Companies

Pharmaceutical companies offer prescription assistance for dialysis and transplant medications. Contact them for eligibility and updates.

Treatments and therapies

Fighting for Kidney Legislation in Minnesota after Living Kidney Donor Gives Her the Gift of Life

After living with unmedicated bipolar disorder, characterized by periods of extreme emotional highs and lows, Shannon Glynn was thrilled when a doctor...

Living donation,

Organ and tissue transplantation and donation,

Treatments and therapies

ACE Inhibitors and ARBs

ACE inhibitors and ARBs help protect your kidneys and heart. They lower blood pressure.

ACE inhibitors and ARBs,

Treatments and therapies

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors

SGLT2 inhibitors lower blood sugar and help protect kidneys in CKD. Side effects include frequent urination and infections.

SGLT-2 inhibitors,

Treatments and therapies

Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (nsMRAs)

Non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (nsMRAs) like finerenone help protect kidneys and lower cardiovascular risk. Learn about their us...

Treatments and therapies

Game-Changing Medications for Kidney Disease and Type 2 Diabetes

Before the existence of three new medications designed to help individuals with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease or early-stage kidney disease, we o...

Diseases and conditions,

Prevention, daily life, and wellbeing,

Treatments and therapies