Tag: Kidney Problems: Misc.

More than one in four patients reclassified as having more severe chronic kidney stage based on cystatin C results

Cardiothoracic ratio shows prognostic value for development of end-stage kidney disease and death

S. aureus bloodstream infection risk highest in Hispanic patients and in those aged 18 to 49 years

CKD progression associated with lower eGFR category, glomerular disease, malignancy, proteinuria, hypertension, complex chronic comorbidities

Outcomes after transplant better with machine perfusion, combination therapy than with therapeutic hypothermia among brain-dead kidney donors

Model can predict chronic kidney disease for individuals with and those without baseline estimated glomerular filtration rate measure

Accuracy of eGFR was improved by the arithmetic mean of the EKFC eGFRcr and EKFC eGFRcys versus estimates for either biomarker alone

Participants with total seafood n-3 PUFA level in highest versus lowest fifth had 13 percent lower risk for incident chronic kidney disease

Association could be underestimated when using only a single baseline measure of cardiorespiratory fitness

Layered approach involves initially combining lifestyle interventions, self-management, and first-line pharmacotherapy