Nephrology News

More than 20 kidney care organizations have collaborated on a letter which urges the Biden administration to advance policies for patients with kidney disease, placing special focus on health equity and the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, the National Kidney Foundation’s Spring Clinical Meetings will again be held virtually, presenting program organizers with a unique set of challenges, according to program chair Mitchell H. Rosner, MD.

Patients who developed AKI during hospitalization with hematologic malignancy experienced a significantly increased risk for kidney function decline and chronic kidney disease in the following year.

The National Kidney Foundation has launched a health equity advisory committee, an endeavor designed to reduce disparities in health care and promote community health and social justice, according to a press release.

A machine learning algorithm grouped patients with chronic kidney disease into three distinct subgroups. Each subgroup was associated with different risks for disease progression, cardiovascular events and mortality.

Researchers who compared kidney transplant recipients randomized to withdrawal or continue corticosteroids 7 days after the procedure found no difference in allograft survival at 15 years.

Severe renal arteriosclerosis is associated with a nine times greater risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in patients with lupus nephritis, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.

Various changes in treatment practices were associated with reductions in mortality and a decreased likelihood of cardiovascular events for patients who received hemodialysis in Sweden during a 10-year period.

After assessing kidney function in a sample of self-identified Black adults, researchers found excluding race from the calculations led to a “substantial increase” in estimated prevalence of chronic kidney disease.

After assessing kidney function in a sample of self-identified Black adults, researchers found excluding race from the calculations led to a “substantial increase” in estimated prevalence of chronic kidney disease.