When Adonis was gored to death by a boar, both Persephone and Aphrodite claimed him. Zeus settled the dispute by arranging for Adonis to spend half the year (the summer months) above the ground with Aphrodite and the other half in the underworld with Persephone.
The two basic types of glomerular disease include nephritic and nephrotic, but with some diseases, the two types can overlap. (See Differential diagnosis and evaluation of glomerular disease .). Nephritic â The key feature of nephritic disease is blood in the urine (hematuria).
Most primary glomerular diseases associated with proteinuria (eg, membranous glomerulonephritis) and secondary renal diseases (eg, diabetic nephropathy) are more common in males than in females. As a result, persistent proteinuria is at least twice as common in males as in females.