Science Codex - Acute Kidney Injury May be More Deadly Than Heart Attacks

Lakhmir Chawla, M.D., associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine and of medicine, was featured in a Science Codex article about his recently published research in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The paper says that acute kidney injury, a condition that is common but often asymptomatic, may be more deadly than a heart attack. The research was also featured in Counsel & Heal

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