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‘Foodome’ to 'thrombolome': A link to the CVDs in CKD patients

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Past Talk
Vipul Chitalia
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Apr 27, 2017
5:00 pm
Apr 27, 2017
5:00 pm
In-person
4 Thomas More St
London E1W 1YW, UK
The Roux Institute
Room
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Network Science Institute
11th floor
177 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Network Science Institute
2nd floor
Room
58 St Katharine's Way
London E1W 1LP, UK

Talk recording

Chronic kidney disease (uremia) has reached pandemic proportion, where more than 10% of world’s population is affected by it. Cardiovascular diseases constitute the major cause of morbidity and mortality in CKD patients, which is primarily driven by uremic solutes, unique CKD-specific risk factors. Emerging evidence points to the importance of uremic solutes in inducing hyperthrombotic phenotype across the entire spectrum of CKD. A specific group of uremic solutes generated in gut retained with renal impairment and inflicting thrombosis (gut-kidney-vascular axis) is recently termed as ‘thrombolome’. They activate specific xenobiotic pathway to upregulate highly procoagulant protein termed tissue factor (TF). Validation of this uremia-specific pathway in two large patient cohorts provides human relevance and demonstrates it as a quantifiable risk factor. Importantly, that it can be potentially modulated by food makes it a modifiable cardiovascular risk factor. Deciphering the influence of food (foodome) on the thrombolome will have deep and broad implications in patients with CKD.

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Apr 27, 2017