Kidney Disease and Heart Disease Spur Each Other　　The work, from two studies involving over 50,000 patients, promises to boost efforts to diagnose simmering kidney disease earlier. All it takes are urine and blood tests that cost less than $ 25, something proponents want to become as routine as cholesterol checks. 2 The average patient knows their cholesterol,says Dr. Peter McCullough, preventive medicine chief at Michigans William Beaumont Hospital. The average patient has no idea of3 their kidney function.　　And while CKD patients often are terrified of having to go on dialysis, the hard truth is that most will die of heart disease before their kidneys disintegrate to that point, something kidney specialists have recognized for several years but isnt widely known, s Indeed, the new research is highlighted in this months Archives of Internal Medicine with a call for doctors who care for heart patients to start rigorously checking out the kidneys, and for better care of early kidney disease. 7　　The odds of having heart disease rose steadily as each of the kidney markers worsened. More striking was the death data. At this age, few deaths are expected, and indeed just 191 people died during the study period. But those who had both CKD and known heart disease had a threefold increased risk of death in a mere 2 1p　　練習：　　A By cholesterol checks.　　C By keeping a close eye on ones kidneys.　　2. How many Americans suffer chronic kidney disease according to an estimation?　　B 400,000.　　D 37,000.　　A 400,000.　　C 200,000.　　4. What did the Archives of Internal Medicine call for doctors caring for heart patients to do?　　B To have their patients chests X-ra Yed regularly.　　D To start rigorously checking out their patients kidneys.　　A Levels of the protein albumin in the urine.　　C The rate at which kidneys filter blood.　　答案與題解　　1．B 第二段第一、二句說到，加速慢性腎病的診斷所使用的方法就是尿檢和血檢，故B項為正確答案。　　3．D 第三段最后一句說．終末期腎衰竭病人數日迅速增加，有40萬人需要腎透析或腎移植才能存活．這個數字在近20年小每10年翻一番。按此計算，10年前應為20萬人，20年前就應是10萬人，故正確答案應為1)。　　5.B 第五段倒數第二句列㈩了腎功能的三個標志物．選項C、A、D均包括在內，唯獨沒有B項，故B項是本題答案。

　　Kidney Disease and Heart Disease Spur Each Other　　The work, from two studies involving over 50,000 patients, promises to boost efforts to diagnose simmering kidney disease earlier. All it takes are urine and blood tests that cost less than $ 25, something proponents want to become as routine as cholesterol checks. 2 The average patient knows their cholesterol,says Dr. Peter McCullough, preventive medicine chief at Michigans William Beaumont Hospital. The average patient has no idea of3 their kidney function.　　And while CKD patients often are terrified of having to go on dialysis, the hard truth is that most will die of heart disease before their kidneys disintegrate to that point, something kidney specialists have recognized for several years but isnt widely known, s Indeed, the new research is highlighted in this months Archives of Internal Medicine with a call for doctors who care for heart patients to start rigorously checking out the kidneys, and for better care of early kidney disease. 7　　The odds of having heart disease rose steadily as each of the kidney markers worsened. More striking was the death data. At this age, few deaths are expected, and indeed just 191 people died during the study period. But those who had both CKD and known heart disease had a threefold increased risk of death in a mere 2 1p　　練習：　　A By cholesterol checks.　　C By keeping a close eye on ones kidneys.　　2. How many Americans suffer chronic kidney disease according to an estimation?　　B 400,000.　　D 37,000.　　A 400,000.　　C 200,000.　　4. What did the Archives of Internal Medicine call for doctors caring for heart patients to do?　　B To have their patients chests X-ra Yed regularly.　　D To start rigorously checking out their patients kidneys.　　A Levels of the protein albumin in the urine.　　C The rate at which kidneys filter blood.　　答案與題解　　1．B 第二段第一、二句說到，加速慢性腎病的診斷所使用的方法就是尿檢和血檢，故B項為正確答案。　　3．D 第三段最后一句說．終末期腎衰竭病人數日迅速增加，有40萬人需要腎透析或腎移植才能存活．這個數字在近20年小每10年翻一番。按此計算，10年前應為20萬人，20年前就應是10萬人，故正確答案應為1)。　　5.B 第五段倒數第二句列㈩了腎功能的三個標志物．選項C、A、D均包括在內，唯獨沒有B項，故B項是本題答案。