Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a common and serious complication in hospitalized patients,
which continues to pose a clinical challenge for treating physicians. The most recent Kidney …

Recognizing that race is a social and not a biological construct, healthcare professionals
and the public have called for removal of race in clinical algorithms. In response, the …

Short-term patient and graft outcomes continue to improve after kidney and liver
transplantation, with 1-year survival rates over 80%; however, improving longer-term …

The development of formulas estimating glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) from serum
creatinine and cystatin C and accounting for certain variables affecting the production rate of …

Background: The directly measured glomerular filtrate rate (mGFR) is the gold standard for
kidney function, but it is invasive and costly. The Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology …

Objective To study age specific associations of modest reductions in estimated glomerular
filtration rate (eGFR) with adverse outcomes. Design Retrospective, population based cohort …

Objectives Cerebrovascular disease has increasingly been linked to overall vascular health.
Pathologic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and kidney disease have been shown to …

Background Diagnosis, prognostication and treatment in chronic kidney disease is often
informed by an estimate of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Commonly used GFR …

Results Median measured GFR was 55.0 ml/min per 1.73 m 2. eGFR creatinine
overestimated measured GFR by 3.1%(percentage of estimates within 30% of measured …

Objectives Creatinine is the biomarker of choice for use in estimates of kidney function in
oncology patients. However as non-renal factors such as muscle mass can influence …