Science news articles about 'kidney disease in children'

... Furth, MD, PhD) in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children Cohort Study (CKID) developed ... valuable tool for physicians who wish to monitor kidney function in young patients. "We are attempting to get ...

... in the clinic. The researchers analyzed information from approximately 200 children in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) study, a prospective observational study of children with mild ...

... pressure every 20 minutes. Of the 198 children in the study, nearly 40 percent had "masked ... NIH-funded research of chronic kidney disease in children, the largest to date, and involving more than 500 ...

... . Schwartz is a principal investigator in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) Cohort Study. The new GFR ... CKD because chronic kidney disease does not go away and tends to worsen over time, ...

... -consuming and costly. A new formula has been developed that accurately estimates the level at which children's kidneys are working using height, gender and measuing variables from just a small sample ...

... its presence. To better understand proteinuria in young kidney disease patients, Craig Wong, MD, MPH ... studied subjects enrolled in the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) cohort study, a trial ...