<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Dr Sanjeev Gulati"><item><title>Smoking increases the risk of chronic kidney disease</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/medically-speaking/smoking-increases-the-risk-of-chronic-kidney-disease/</link><pubDate>July 29, 2022, 3:58 pm</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/add1d743_9388_P_1_mr-1.png</image><category>Medically Speaking</category><excerpt>Kidney disease is a non-communicable disease (NCD) and currently affects around 850 million people worldwide. One in ten adults suffers from chronic kidney disease (CKD). The global burden of CKD is increasing and CKD is projected to become the 5t...</excerpt></item></author></feed>