Testing for kidney disease in type 2 diabetes: consensus statement and recommendationsWinocour, PeterDiggle, JaneDavies, SarahBeba, HannahBrake, JulieHicks, DebbieCockwell, PaulMain, ClaireDiabetes & Primary Care
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is common in the United States. The estimated prevalence of CKD in US adults was 11.7% ± 0.8% in 2000, based on the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Global estimates for CKD prevalence are less certain, but recent studies in Europe, ...
The companies plan to include patients with and without type 2 diabetes who have chronic kidney disease in the trial. “Our plans for this new trial are yet another example of our ongoing commitment to improving patient health, especially in areas where unmet needs exist,” said Hans-Juergen ...
2 The purpose of this review is to describe the principles of the VXM test for kidney transplantation. What Is a Crossmatch Test? A test to determine the immunologic risk of a recipient with a potential donor by ensuring that there are no transplant-relevant circulating antibodies in the ...
An improved urine-testing system for people suffering from kidney stones inspired by nature and proposed by researchers from Penn State and Stanford University may enable patients to receive results within 30 minutes instead of the current turnaround tim
The questionnaire Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form version 1.3 (KDQOL-SF™) is valuable for assessing the health-related quality of life in patients treated with chronic dialysis. The aim of this study was to translate and test the reliability of the KDQOL-SF for use in Denmark. ...
3,23 While they only make up about 13% of the population, Black Americans account for 35% of the people with kidney failure.4 Given that Black individuals account for a disproportionately high number of Americans who have kidney disease, the use of a race modifier in ...
Prenatal testing in a fetus at risk for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disese and autosomal recessive junctional epidermolysis bullosa with pyloric a... et al.Prenatal testing in a fetus at risk for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease and autosomal recessive junctional epidermolysis bullosa...
Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with an increased risk of fracture. Decreased bone mass and disruption of microarchitecture occur early in the course of CKD and worsens with the progressive decline in renal function so that at the time of initiation of dialysis at least 50...
A therapeutic dose for one individual might be a toxic dose in another. Many drugs are metabolized and inactivated in the liver, whereas others are excreted by the kidney. In some patients with liver or kidney disease, lower doses of drugs may be required to produce appropriate therapeutic ...