Kidney Disease

Adults with chronic kidney disease who received a short handout about CKD before seeing a nephrologist showed increased knowledge of the disease after the visit compared with patients who did not receive the educational material.

Patients with kidney disease may be using cannabis recreationally or to treat symptoms without the knowledge of their health care team, according to results of a small survey of patients from a hemodialysis clinic in Canada.

Poor sleep quality may be linked to higher mortality for adults on hemodialysis, data show.

Adding obinutuzumab to standard therapy for active lupus nephritis led to significantly higher rates of complete renal response, according to data published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Race may play a role in the waitlist experience, allograft quality and transplant outcomes of patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease, according to results from a cohort study.

Few nephrology programs have pediatric-to-adult transition clinics for young adult patients with kidney disease despite recommendations of established guidelines, according to a survey.

Pediatric nephrology is facing a looming workforce shortage. Concern initially developed within the community via anecdotal evidence and water cooler conversations at national meetings. More recently, alarm has heightened substantially due to the advent of more objective data.

Older adults with advanced kidney disease are often motivated to receive a transplant but may face emotional and psychosocial barriers during evaluation, according to a study.

When eGFR was calculated using creatinine and cystatin C and without adjusting for race, adults with eGFR less than 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 had greater risk for dementia, but not for stroke, than those with normal eGFR, according to study data.

Iron deficiency may be linked to non-dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease and mortality in patients without anemia, according to results of a nationwide cohort study.