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...adult population living with some degree of CKD. For most people, the main risk to health and life is heart disease, due to a number of challenges: increased stress on the heart, as it must work much harder to get blood to the kidneys high blood pressure, which is a risk factor for heart disease buildup of toxic waste in the body, because the kidneys are not removing...

...care for some of the millions of Syrians living in hard-to-reach parts of the country and the 800,000 living in besieged areas, cut off from medical aid and supplies, electricity, telephone lines and food aid. Ingenuity and resourcefulness are core to these clinics, says Zaher Sahloul, SAMS senior advisor, in this interview. For example, with many power plants bombed out,...

...Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey: Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing, England, 2014. Available at https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey/adult-psychiatric-morbidity-survey-survey-of-mental-health-and-wellbeing-england-2014 (accessed 18/02/23) The Mental Health Foundation (2022) What it’s like to have...

...Care courses and qualifications. Research suggests that children of prisoners are at risk of mental health problems, challenges within formal educational environments and future offending. Research statistics indicate that 65% of boys with a parent in prison are more likely to go on to offend, although this data somewhat oversimplifies the complex relationship between...