Chronic Kidney Disease News

Risk for hypoglycemia is higher among older Black adults with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes compared with white patients, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA — In this Healio video exclusive, Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FNLA, FASCP, MACE, discussed the recently published multidisciplinary guidelines for diabetes and cardio-renal-metabolic diseases.

Black adults with type 2 diabetes have a higher risk for developing chronic kidney disease and heart failure than white adults, and the time from diabetes diagnosis to CKD or heart failure was 12 years or less in all age groups.

The National Early Warning Score performs better among patients with kidney failure than other hospitalized patients, according to a research letter published in Kidney Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA — Chronic kidney disease assessment and monitoring by albuminuria and estimated glomerular filtration rate is necessary for delivering goal-directed therapies to people with diabetes, according to a speaker.

The Organ Procurement and Transplant Network Board of Directors has unanimously voted to remove the race coefficient from eGFR equations.

LONDON — Elevated noninvasive markers of liver fibrosis correlated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events, end-stage renal disease and worse survival in patients with chronic kidney disease and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.

PHILADELPHIA — Black patients are highly likely to benefit from prescription of SGLT2 inhibitors for HF, but they are less commonly prescribed them compared with other patients, according to a speaker.

PHILADELPHIA — Black patients are highly likely to benefit from prescription of SGLT2 inhibitors for HF, but they are less commonly prescribed them compared with other patients, according to a speaker.

Mortality among kidney transplant patients with COVID-19 and those on dialysis with COVID-19 was similar during the first and second waves of the pandemic in Europe.