The results of a study suggest that vitamin B1 doses can prove helpful to reverse kidney disease in diabetics.

The Warwick University researchers noticed vitamin B1 (thiamine) effects on 40 patients from Pakistan.  Vitamin B1 is sufficiently found in the grain, yeast and meat.

According to the reports from the journal Diabetologia, the vitamin seems to help in stopping key protein loss in the urine.

These findings have been built on the Warwick University researchers’ early work that showed many patients with diabetes were deficient in thiamine.

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Eating too much sodium is a big risk factor for high blood pressure, but now a new study says that consuming too little potassium is an equally big risk factor, especially for blacks.

A gene, which may influence potassium’s effects on blood pressure, has also been identified in the study.

These findings back previous studies that have drawn similar results about blood pressure and potassium. The study has been on a Texas heart study done on the urine samples of 3,300 people.

This new study has been presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s annual meeting, in Philadelphia.

Dr. Susan Hedayati, who led the study, says: “lower levels of potassium in the urine, means lower potassium in the diet and higher blood pressure and the effect was even stronger than the effect of sodium on blood pressure.”

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