Alcohol Consumption and Risk of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Nationwide Observational Cohort Study PMC
For example, when rats are given alcohol, they also require significant magnesium in their diets, suggesting that alcohol disrupts absorption of this nutrient from the gut. Investigators have speculated that alcohol or an intermediate metabolite directly affects magnesium exchange in the kidney tubules (Epstein 1992). Similarly, clinicians long have noted significant kidney enlargement (i.e., nephromegaly) […]