Chronic Kidney Disease

Between 2013 and 2018, geographic disparities in the prevalence of chronic kidney disease increased in the Southeastern region of the U.S., according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Clinicians reported striving to minimize treatment burden and working with children with chronic kidney disease and their parents to support shared decision-making, according to data published in the American Journal of Transplantation.

Removing the race coefficient in eGFR equations may increase equitable distribution of Black candidates listed earlier for kidney transplantation on a preemptive basis, according to data published in the Clinical Kidney Journal.

Patients with stage 4 chronic kidney disease benefit from a 24-week home-based exercise program, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Removing the race-specific coefficient from the equation that determines eGFR results in a “small but potentially important” effect on the inclusion of patients in [chronic kidney disease] trials, according to published data.

Adults with type 1 diabetes are seeing increasing rates of obesity and now have a higher age-adjusted risk for chronic kidney disease than people with type 2 diabetes, according to researchers.

Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes has launched two implementation tools based on a 2020 clinical practice guideline for the management of diabetes in chronic kidney disease, according to a press release from the foundation.

Vantage Health announced its partnership with Fresenius Medical North America and a new care agreement aimed at improving outcomes for patients with late-stage chronic kidney disease, according to a company press release.

This year marks Northwest Kidney Centers 60th anniversary as a nonprofit dialysis organization in the U.S.

Researchers observed no independent association between chronic kidney disease and pre- or post-event dementia among patients with transient ischemic attack and stroke, according to results of a population-based cohort study.