Chronic Kidney Disease News

Although progress has been made, undocumented immigrants with kidney failure are underserved and in desperate need of care, according to a presenter at Innovations in Dialysis: Expediting Advances Symposium.

Between 2008 and 2015, overall average Medicare expenditures were 11% more for in-center hemodialysis than home-based peritoneal dialysis.

Findings of this review suggest that gender-affirming hormone therapy may increase serum creatinine among transgender men but has the opposite effect among transgender women.

Patients with acute kidney injury treated with dialysis showed higher post-discharge health care utilization and costs compared with hospitalized control patients.

CareDx Inc. announced the launch of AlloHome, a pan-organ patient monitoring tool located on the AlloCare app that can capture health data from the comfort of a patient’s home, according to a press release.

When patients receive a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease from their primary care physician, they are typically sent to a nephrologist for further care.

Among patients with kidney failure on dialysis, investigators found a low circulation of anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibodies correlated with an increased risk for COVID-19.

In a 5-year period, 18.9% of patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes progressed from moderate or high baseline risk to very high risk.

Among extremely low gestational age neonates, gestational age, birthweight z-score and prenatal steroids correlated with an increased risk for chronic kidney disease.

When the race coefficient was removed from the eGFR equation, 28.1% of Black patients were reclassified to a more severe chronic kidney disease stage, compared with when the coefficient was included in the equation.