... a patient's serum creatinine level, eGFR has long been used as a rough estimate of actual kidney function. It provides a practical alternative to more precise kidney function tests, which are complex ...
... in the need for dialysis or a kidney transplant.
"Estimated GFR is an important measure of kidney function that can be easily calculated using serum creatinine and a patient's age, gender, and ...
... for diseases than was originally thought.
The researchers looked at two disorders of kidney function - iminoglycinuria and hyperglycinuria. These disorders, first described 50 years ago, are ...
... to estimate GFR using demographic variables, such as sex and height, and biochemical markers of kidney function that can easily be measured in the clinic. These include measures of creatinine (a ...
... indicate that greater efforts should be made to encourage elderly people who have impaired kidney function alongside other risk factors - such as high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure, which ...
... of Rochester serves as the central biochemistry laboratory.
"Most other formulas used to estimate kidney function in children with CKD are singular to their institutions or hospitals. In addition, ...
Characteristics associated with proteinuria—a predictor of decline in child kidney function—have been identified, according to a study appearing in the March 2009 issue of the Clinical Journal of the ...
... ever of men with Fabry disease and included the most accurate techniques of measuring kidney function. The study also had important limitations: it used data from different studies performed at ...
... would be given by IV to patients who are being treated in the hospital.
"There's an important reduction of kidney function every time one of these acute heart failure episodes happens," says Dr. ...
Cardiology researchers have found a peptide that helps preserve and improve kidney function during heart failure, without affecting blood pressure.
... influence of factors like aging and medications, which can affect cognition, the researchers found that poor kidney function, assessed at the beginning of the study, was linked with a more rapid rate ...
... Coresh, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins University), and their colleagues examined the effects of changes in kidney function in 13,029 participants of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, a ...
Declining kidney function is linked to a higher risk of heart failure, heart attack, peripheral arterial disease, and early death in individuals with or without kidney disease, ...
... , African-American patients with chronic kidney disease continue to lose their kidney function over time, research shows. The finding suggests that treating CKD in this population may be vastly more ...
... maintain a lower hemoglobin level. A similar effect of EPO on accelerating the decline of kidney function had been suggested by earlier studies. Our study suggests that caution may be warranted when ...
