Chronic Kidney Disease Stages

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In value-based care, the term “follow the money” may be fitting to define the goal of payers providing care for patients with chronic kidney disease, kidney specialists said, because it is tied to a key outcome – hospitalizations.

The latest edition of the United States Renal Data System Annual Data Report offers a look at outcomes from the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as outcomes in the Medicare Advantage and Medicaid programs among patients with kidney disease.

Stanford University nephrologist Vivek Bhalla, MD, FASN, FAHA, understands the value of more aggressive screening for primary aldosteronism, a condition that can lead to high blood pressure.

Worldwide obesity has nearly tripled since 1975, according to the WHO, and is heightening the risk of people developing chronic kidney disease, sources told Healio/Nephrology News & Issues.

Traditionally, the diet for patients with chronic kidney disease restricts certain nutrients to help control serum blood levels of phosphorus and potassium.

Effect of empagliflozin (Jardiance, Boehringer Ingelheim/Eli Lilly) on kidney disease progression or CV death vs. placebo in adults with preexisting CKD.

Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists disrupt the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and provide beneficial outcomes in several renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system-mediated disease states.

A search in the medical literature or for information directed to patients on when treatment for kidney failure should begin is not likely to yield a consensus.

Leflunomide is non-inferior to azathioprine in terms of safety and efficacy for lupus nephritis maintenance therapy, according to data published in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.