As with adults, proteinuria reflects CKD severity in children, according to researchers. Their study of 213 children with mild to moderate CKD revealed that proteinuria correlates with glomerular filtration rate (GFR), regardless of CKD cause or other factors.
High BMI in patients at high risk for kidney disease seems to be associated with a reduced likelihood of death, researchers suggest.
SAN DIEGO—No baseline transferrin saturation (TSAT), serum ferritin, or soluble transferrin receptor value predicts how hemodialysis patients with high ferritin levels will respond to IV iron therapy.
The Framingham Risk Equation (FRE), a standard tool for predicting CVD risk, may greatly underestimate the true rate of heart disease among dialysis patients, according to researchers.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Class IV patients with diffuse lupus glomerulonephritis with crescents may require more aggressive therapy directed at non-immune complex mediated necrotizing glomerulonephritis compared to patients without crescents, according to a new study.
Microalbuminuria is associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in the general population, new data suggest.
IV and oral iron increase hemoglobin similarly in non-dialysis CKD patients, but IV iron may result in more rapid repletion of iron stores.
CHICAGO—Using plasma fasting glucose level and glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in conjunction with the TIMI risk index improves 30-day mortality predictions following acute MI, data show.
Hyperuricemia may be strongly associated with CKD in African Americans.
Conflicting findings emerge on the link between HbA1c and mortality in diabetics on dialysis.
