by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 24, 2022 | For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Not rarely patients and readers on this site ask about vitamin D supplements and whether they raise the risk for kidney stones or reduce risk for bone fractures. This article is about the first question. In pursuit of the answer, I would like to share with you how one...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Oct 11, 2022 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function, Uncategorized
A Free New Book About Kidney Stones Here is a download link for the book Here is a brief video that walks you through the book Why Another Book? It has long been my impression that discussion of kidney stone formation arises less out of the rich detail of kidney...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Feb 17, 2019 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
The painting by van Gogh, The Sower with Setting Sun (1888) Kroller – Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands, has no obvious connection to this article unless you have read Nellie Hermann’s essay on the former mining district of Belgium called the...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Dec 23, 2018 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
I put my youngest image here because the groundwork of what I offer belongs to 1965 when I first thought about the problem and 1968 when my paper about it was published. I should have put in as a bookend my latest and oldest image, too, for I completed the thought...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 16, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
Glomerular filtration is the main life sustaining kidney function, and kidney stones can cause enough damage to lower it. Usually the reduction is very modest, but sometimes stones can cause kidney failure. This means, like all diseases, stones are best prevented as...
by Dr Fredric Coe | Sep 15, 2017 | For Doctors, For Patients, For Scientists, How Kidneys Function
The first article in this series of three summarizes the importance of filtration, the rudiments of how we measure it, and the results of research concerning how kidney stones reduce it. This article gives the details of kidney function in stone formers. It carries...
