Vipul Chitalia
London E1W 1YW, UK
Portland, ME 04101
2nd floor
11th floor
Boston, MA 02115
2nd floor
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.