by Intrepy Team | Mar 29, 2019 | Blog
One of the toughest issues facing patients with high blood pressure/ hypertension are questions regarding what types of foods to eat. Patients are frequently told to avoid “salt” by their physician, but beyond that they receive little guidance in terms of...
by Intrepy Team | Mar 22, 2019 | Blog
Why Would I want to Get a Kidney Transplant? When your Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) gets severe enough, waste products and extra fluids build up in your body. Eventually, this gets so bad that your activities are limited and ultimately your kidney failure results in...
by Intrepy Team | Mar 18, 2019 | Blog
24 hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring or ABPM is a valuable tool for the management of the patient with hypertension (HTN). For the ABPM test, the patient is fitted with a specialized, blood pressure measuring device that records the blood pressure over a full...
by Intrepy Team | Mar 12, 2019 | Blog
Nephrologists (Kidney Medical Doctors) and patients with kidney disease work hard together to prevent kidney disease progressing to the point where dialysis is needed. Unfortunately, despite everybody’s best efforts kidney disease may progress to the point where...
by Intrepy Team | Feb 26, 2019 | Blog
1. What is Chronic Kidney Disease? Chronic kidney disease (CKD) means your kidneys do not function normally. The main function of kidney is filtering the blood; we measure kidney function by a term called Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) or filtration rate. In the...
by Intrepy Team | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
High potassium is a common problem in patients with kidney disease. Whether you have been diagnosed with chronic kidney disease or are on dialysis, you may have been told you need a low potassium diet. What is potassium? It is a mineral found in many of the...
