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ArticleMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2020

Age-Related Decline in Renal Blood Flow Could Be a Beneficial and Compensatory Mechanism.

Bożena Czarkowska-Pączek, Krzysztof Mucha, Leszek Pączek

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Article in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Bożena Czarkowska-PączekDepartment of Clinical Nursing, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Krzysztof MuchaDepartment of Immunology, Transplantology, and Internal Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Leszek PączekDepartment of Immunology, Transplantology, and Internal Diseases, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
Medical University of Warsaw · PL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is a time-dependent process affecting all organs and tissues in the human body. The process of aging in the kidney is characterized by structural and functional changes, of which the main feature is a reduction in size, a decreased number of functioning glomeruli, and vascular changes. These changes result in functional deterioration, mainly involving a decrease in renal blood flow and the glomerular filtration rate. Additionally, impaired regulation of electrolyte and water homeostasis due to structural changes in the tubulo-interstitial system can occur. A reduced glomerular filtration rate does not necessarily result in serious clinical complications, and other selected parameters of kidney function may remain within reference value ranges in the elderly. Aging is also accompanied by decreased perfusion of other organs, including the heart and brain, which can induce more serious conditions in the elderly, including cardiac insufficiency or impairment of mental function. Thus, the decrease in renal blood flow in the aging kidney could be regarded as a compensatory mechanism to maintain perfusion of other organs and therefore, it could be also treated as being a beneficial reordering of blood-flow allocation.

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AdultAgedAgingFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedRenal Circulation

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PMID32015299
PMCPMC7020759
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