Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in people with diabetes is becoming an increasing major public health concern, disproportionately burdening low-and middle-income countries …
H Pottel, J Björk, AD Rule, N Ebert… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The accuracy of estimation of kidney function with the use of routine metabolic tests, such as measurement of the serum creatinine level, has been controversial. The …
Background Current equations for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that use serum creatinine or cystatin C incorporate age, sex, and race to estimate measured GFR. However …
Biobanks often contain several phenotypes relevant to diseases such as major depressive disorder (MDD), with partly distinct genetic architectures. Researchers face complex …
P Delanaye, E Vidal-Petiot, J Björk… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT Background A new Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation without the race variable has been recently proposed (CKD-EPIAS). This equation …
P Delanaye, E Schaeffner, M Cozzolino… - Clinical Chemistry and …, 2023 - degruyter.com
The EFLM recommends not to implement the race-free Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Consortium (CKD-EPI) equation in European laboratories and to keep the …
AN Muiru, JY Hsu, X Zhang, LJ Appel… - Annals of internal …, 2023 - acpjournals.org
Background: Prior studies associating acute kidney injury (AKI) with more rapid subsequent loss of kidney function had methodological limitations, including inadequate control for …
BACKGROUND Knowledge about a patient's glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is central to the practice of medicine. It is needed to diagnose and classify chronic kidney disease (CKD) …
CF Manski, J Mullahy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The use of race measures in clinical prediction models is contentious. We seek to inform the discourse by evaluating the inclusion of race in probabilistic predictions of illness that …