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New European guidelines urge every heart patient to be tested for kidney disease

As of September 2026: Co-developer of the new guidelines

In European medicine, the heart and kidney have been treated as separate problems. The first-ever joint guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology and the European Renal Association now treat them as one system that damages itself in a two-way cycle: kidney disease accelerates heart disease, and heart disease accelerates kidney failure.

Updated Sep 7