A meta-analysis of data from 1.1 million adults from 25 general-population cohorts, seven high-risk cohorts (of vascular disease), and 13 CKD cohorts indicated that the Chronic Kidney Disease ...

Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD, PhD, MPH Nephrologists should rethink the screening level and offer a more conservative and meaningful cutoff level, such as an eGFR of 45. How often have you been consulted ...

Because race is a social construct, not a physical characteristic, the race coefficient may not be needed to calculate eGFR. Removing the race coefficient could increase the number of black ...

Equations underestimate the slope of renal decline over time In chronic kidney disease care, the central clinical question is ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a public health problem in theUnited States with rising incidence and prevalence. The diseasemay progress to end-stage renal disease, which is associated ...

Estimates of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) that are based on serum creatinine are routinely used; however, they are imprecise, potentially leading to the overdiagnosis of chronic kidney disease.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After assessing kidney function in a sample of self-identified Black adults, researchers found excluding race ...

AUSTIN, Texas -- For patients with uncontrolled gout, estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) remained stable with combination pegloticase (Krystexxa) and methotrexate treatment, researchers ...

In a poster titled “Basal Insulins in Advanced Renal Failure: Time for a Paradigm Shift,” authors compared the safety and efficacy of insulin degludec (Tresiba) with insulin glargine 100U (Lantus) ...