Kidney Disease

Health care providers need to consider multidisciplinary care models to improve outcomes for patients with diabetic kidney disease, according to speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

Biomarkers can identify patients at high risk for diabetic kidney disease, as well as help nephrologists make early clinical decisions to slow its progression, according to a speaker at ASN Kidney Week.

Among patients with end-stage kidney disease, researchers found the same degree of survival benefit from kidney transplant for those with and those without prostate cancer, noting the cancer was linked with modest increases in mortality.

Nephrology News & Issues interviewed Susan E. Quaggin, MD, FASN, president of the American Society of Nephrology, on what attendees can expect during the all-virtual Kidney Week, which takes place Nov. 2 through Nov. 7.

The nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist finerenone provides cardiovascular and kidney benefits in adults with diabetic kidney disease independent of and combined with SGLT2 inhibitors, new analyses show.

Black patients categorized as non-Black in GFR estimation were waitlisted earlier, but time to kidney failure with replacement therapy did not change, according to a retrospective cohort study in American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

Among 125 women with kidney disease who were of childbearing age, less than two-thirds received reproductive health counseling from their nephrologist, according to a retrospective chart review.

A joint task force of the National Kidney Foundation and the American Society of Nephrology has released its final report on considering race in diagnosing kidney disease and called for immediate adoption of race-free eGFR equations.

Children and young adults with kidney disease showed a “high burden” of subclinical cardiovascular disease, according to a study that examined structural and functional abnormalities.

A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials suggested magnesium supplementation alone might benefit patients on hemodialysis with chronic kidney disease-mineral bone disorder.