{"id":178079,"date":"2023-12-11T22:50:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/genetic-safeguard-protects-some-who-are-considered-high-risk-for-kidney-disease"},"modified":"2023-12-11T22:50:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T04:50:27","slug":"genetic-safeguard-protects-some-who-are-considered-high-risk-for-kidney-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/genetic-safeguard-protects-some-who-are-considered-high-risk-for-kidney-disease","title":{"rendered":"Genetic safeguard protects some who are considered high risk for kidney disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-safeguard-protects-some-who-are-considered-high-risk-for-kidney-disease3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many Black Americans who are thought to have a high risk of developing kidney disease possess a protective genetic variant that nullifies the extra risk, a new study from Columbia researchers has found. The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-023-43020-9\">published<\/a> in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that high-risk people who carry this variant have a risk of developing kidney disease much closer to that of the general population.<\/p>\n<p>The findings will have an immediate impact on <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/clinical+practice\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clinical practice<\/a>, says study leader Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD, associate professor of medicine at Columbia\u2019s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Black Americans who are thought to have a high risk of developing kidney disease possess a protective genetic variant that nullifies the extra risk, a new study from Columbia researchers has found. The work is published in the journal Nature Communications. The study found that high-risk people who carry this variant have a risk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}