Kidney Disease

Among patients with chronic kidney disease and albuminuria treated with dapagliflozin, researchers did not identify a correlation between acute reduction in eGFR and higher rates of CKD progression.

African Caribbean adults with type 1 diabetes have a higher risk for kidney function loss than those of other ethnicities, according to study findings published in Diabetes Care.

Among patients with a high risk for chronic kidney disease progression, less than half attend a nephrology visit within 1 year of established risk, according to a recently published study.

Although percent changes in age-standardized chronic kidney disease are worse for women in 66% of countries included in this study, exceptions exist in which men experience a less favorable change.

Among extremely low gestational age neonates, gestational age, birthweight z-score and prenatal steroids correlated with an increased risk for chronic kidney disease.

Aldosterone is associated with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease progression and the development of end-stage kidney disease, according to data published in the European Heart Journal.

U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil complaint in federal court against Fresenius Vascular Care Inc. alleging that the company billed Medicare and other health plans for more than 1,000 unnecessary procedures in their access centers.

The National Kidney Foundation announced support for the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations in its passing of the Fiscal Year 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill.

Nephrology pharmacists have proposed education standards based on six main topics for pharmacists caring for kidney patients.

Researchers created a new metric among patients on dialysis according to the ratio between phosphorous and normalized protein catabolic rate that correlates with their survival.