Researchers led by Ibrahim Hashim, PhD, analyzed serum creatinine values of 56,676 patients over 16 months, according to a July 26 news release. After removing the race adjustment, 14% to 28% of Black ...

Patients with kidney failure require dialysis regularly, which is an invasive and potentially risky treatment. But now researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) have ...

Even "normal" kidney test results may mask hidden risks if theyre unusually low for your age and sex, signaling higher ...

Researchers developed a new risk equation, based on six routinely available patient parameters, that yielded improved performance in estimating the risk of a chronic kidney disease (CKD) patient to ...

Scientists are developing new ways of evaluating kidney health that don’t make potentially harmful assumptions based on the patient’s race. Quick, commonplace lab tests to screen for kidney problems ...

Laboratory signs of chronic kidney disease were greater for women who had a pregnancy complicated by preeclampsia, according to study data published in the Journal of the American Society of ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...