Smoking may block some of the benefits of kidney disease medications

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/ason-smb111416.php

Public Release: 17-Nov-2016
Smoking may block some of the benefits of kidney disease medications
American Society of Nephrology

Highlights

In a study of patients with chronic kidney disease, nonsmokers and smokers who successfully quit had slower worsening of their kidney function than those who were unsuccessful at quitting.
Cigarette smoking partially negated the kidney-protective effects of patients' medications.

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