Research led by Children's Hospital of Fudan University in China has found that a gene called pancreatic progenitor cell ...

Clinicians should continue to monitor UACR or UPCR in at-risk children. During periods of rapid growth such as puberty, children with low GFR may show rapid decline in kidney function. Puberty is a ...

In a 2024 clinical practice guideline issued by the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization, a ...

Below please find summaries of new articles that will be published in the next issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The summaries are not intended to substitute for the full articles as a source ...

Cystatin C is emphasized as a preferred biomarker for accurate GFR measurement in CKD assessment ... SGLT2 inhibitor use and refine chronic kidney disease (CKD) management. The Kidney Disease ...

Those in favor of the classification argue that excess ... Downstream effects include type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, gastrointestinal disorders, nonalcoholic ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a progressive ... and gene regulatory circuits in kidney tissues and specific cell types. This approach prioritized 601 kidney function-related genes ...

Aims The epidemiology of the five stages of chronic ... in Renal Disease Study equation. Patients were classified into five stages of CKD according to the National Kidney Foundation classification ...

When creatinine is low or normal, that’s when you can think that the kidney is doing its job filtering the blood and working fine.” Kidney disease ... types of equations to estimate the GFR ...

My protein was cut in half, and my GFR ... to slow disease progression.” Clinical trials of some drugs that slow the progressive decline in people with other types of chronic kidney diseases ...

In clinical practice, various techniques, including estimation formulas and direct measurement of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), are employed to evaluate ... The use of KDIGO’s Chronic Kidney ...