A past or present diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease elevates the risk of progression to kidney failure among patients with IgA nephropathy, according to investigators.
Dialysis facilities would be more successful at immunizing patients against the COVID-19 coronavirus if they receive direct allocations of the vaccine, according to officials from major dialysis companies.
The early morning fasting urine-to-plasma urea ratio reflects the kidneys’ urine-concentrating capacity, which may decline early in ADPKD, according to investigators.
Nearly a million more Black adults in the United States would have stage 3 chronic kidney disease if the race coefficient were removed from the CKD-EPI equation used to estimate glomerular filtration rate, according to an analysis.
Dialysis use among older Veterans Affairs (VA) patients with incident kidney failure varied from 25.0% to 81.4% across 108 VA facilities, a study found.