The thresholds for kidney function currently used to diagnose chronic kidney disease (CKD) reflect a true increase in the risk of serious illness, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet and ...

A mismatch between two common tests for kidney function may indicate a higher risk for kidney failure, heart disease, and death, a new study shows. Health care providers for decades have measured ...

A year after guidelines were revised to remove the use of race in eGFR, many labs and pathologists were still relying on the dangerously outdated version of the test. In recent years, the medical ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Common tests used in cancer clinical trials to evaluate kidney function may unnecessarily exclude some ...