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Kidney problems can kill women with heart failure, new study finds.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)

| October 18, 2004 | This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: John Fauber

MILWAUKEE _ A new study has found that kidney problems caused 25 percent of deaths of women with heart failure, a condition that affects more than 5 million American men and women.

The study also found that giving those patients a common heart medicine lowers the risk of death substantially. But about half of heart failure patients don't get the drugs, doctors say.

The study and other research point to a Catch-22 that increasingly worries many doctors: As more people survive with heart disease and as the population ages, physicians expect to see more cases of heart failure. At the same time, an obese population and increasing rates of diabetes are likely to spur more kidney disease, which often goes undetected…

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