Kidney failure patients ‘up to eight times more likely to suffer heart attack’
by Lauren Gilmour
Mar 01, 2024
3 minutes
People with kidney failure are up to eight times more likely to have a heart attack and up to four times more likely to have a stroke than those without, a new study suggests.
An analysis of kidney patient failure data over 20 years by the British Heart Foundation Scotland indicated that people with kidney failure have a higher risk of dying as a result.
The study, published in the European
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