A coalition of leading U.S. pharmacy organizations, in collaboration with the National Kidney Foundation (NKF), is urging a ...
A race-free revision of the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), introduced in September 2021, has rapidly ...
A retrospective Swedish study compared measured GFR (mGFR) vs estimated GFR (eGFR) and the risk for important clinical outcomes within individuals.
PenKid is a kidney function biomarker that correlates with gold standard GFR measurements in stable and acute kidney injury (AKI) patients. Based on penKid, a new formula was developed to estimate the ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Newer eGFR calculations that do not consider race show a link between kidney function and dementia. Equations ...
The new equation appears more accurate than the race-free 2021 CKD-EPI equation, according to investigators. The European Kidney Function Consortium (EKFC) has developed a new race- and sex-free ...
The accuracy of estimation of kidney function with the use of routine metabolic tests, such as measurement of the serum creatinine level, has been controversial. The European Kidney Function ...
Black kidney transplant patients are now receiving medical reparations for flaw in the eGFR formula that's used to estimate kidney function. There's a special kind of patience someone waiting for a ...