The kidneys have a few important jobs, but primarily they’re waste-removal experts. Inside your kidneys, blood passes through filtering units called nephrons. The nephrons remove excess nutrients like ...

It was 2017, three years before the widespread use of race in clinical algorithms — including the eGFR equation estimating Cannon’s kidney function — would become a flashpoint across medicine.

Propensity score overlap weighting was used to compare outcomes. A composite of incident end-stage kidney disease, sustained 40% estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) decline, or all-cause ...

and colleagues wrote in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. For the Onco-GFR prospective study, the investigators created 2-, 3-, and 4-marker eGFR panels using race-free creatinine-based CKD ...

This was measured according to estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR; a measure of kidney function in removing waste and ...

How quickly you get one may depend on race According to the National Kidney Foundation, in 2020, decision-makers started looking at eliminating race from the EGFR kidney formula and other clinical ...

A SELECT trial subanalysis showed that semaglutide works as well in people with CVD, overweight/obesity, and impaired kidney ...

Obesity, uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension are the main risk factors for the development of kidney diseases. In this ...

The specific kidney, cardiovascular disease, and heart failure outcomes, such as reduction in eGFR, all-cause mortality, MACE ...

The anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and other major adverse cardiovascular ...

The kidney health benefits of SGLT2 inhibitors extend to patient subgroups with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in combo with other conditions.