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In "Drugs slow diabetes patients' kidney damage kidney damage Kidney injury Nephrology A structural or functional compromise in renal function due to external–eg, athletic, occupational, or other trauma, resulting in bruising or hemorrhage, which can be profuse and life threatening Etiology Vascular " (SN: 9/22/01, p. 182), the number of participants in one of the studies was misstated. Researcher Barry M. Brenner and his colleagues enrolled 1,513 patients in their study, not 327, giving the drug losartan to roughly half and a placebo placebo (pləsē`bō), inert substance given instead of a potent drug. Placebo medications are sometimes prescribed when a drug is not really needed or when one would not be appropriate because they make patients feel well taken care of. to the others. Also, the researchers checked for a doubling of concentrations of the compound creatinine creatinine /cre·at·i·nine/ (kre-at´i-nin) an anhydride of creatine, the end product of phosphocreatine metabolism; measurements of its rate of urinary excretion are used as diagnostic indicators of kidney function and muscle mass. in the blood, not urine. High blood creatinine can signal kidney problems.
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