The target BP level of less than 130/80 mm Hg for CKD patients—which is recommended by a Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative guideline—is not definitively supported by scientific data and could potentially lead to adverse effects, according to Julia B. Lewis, MD, of the division of nephrology and hypertension at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.

Deaths from prostate cancer (PCa) fell by almost half after 14 years of biennial screening, according to data from a Swedish study.

A study of testosterone supplementation in older men was terminated after daily application of a testosterone gel was associated with a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) adverse events.

Low socioeconomic status (SES) increases blacks' risk of developing CKD nearly twofold, but does not increase the risk in whites, according to a recent report in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (2010;55:977-980).

A high resting heart rate and low beat-to-beat heart rate variability raises the odds of developing kidney disease, according to a study that examined data from 13,241 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.

Acupuncture may be an effective treatment for hot flashes in men receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer (PCa), according to findings published online in Urology.

Vaccine for advanced castration-resistant prostate cancer prolongs life by a median of four months, but at an extremely high cost.

Researchers have found a strong association between age and nephrosclerosis in healthy adults, and this association is not explained by kidney function and CKD risk factors, according to a report in Annals of Internal Medicine (2010;152:561-567).

Dietary calcium may raise the risk of prostate cancer among Chinese men, recent study findings suggest.

CKD patients who have been diagnosed with a current major depressive episode is twice as likely as their non-depressed counterparts to be hospitalized, progress to long-term dialysis treatments, or die within a year.