A systematic review and meta-analysis support greater reduction of proteinuria in patients with IgA nephropathy.

New normative data and a web-based kidney calculator help doctors detect kidney disease early by comparing eGFR scores to age ...

Reductions in measured GFR after bariatric surgery were positively correlated with baseline measured GFR before surgery, ...

Major differences between eGFR based on cystatin C compared with creatinine were associated with higher rates for all-cause mortality, CV events and kidney failure for outpatients, according to data ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 73-year-old female. A recent blood test returned an eGFR (estimated glomerular filtration rate) of 59. My physician’s nurse told me that the test was normal. When I asked her ...

Exercising more frequently is associated with a significantly slower decline in measured glomerular filtration rate in a new ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...

Subtle abnormalities in kidney function—even within the range considered normal—may help identify people at risk of ...

The Alpestria-1 study enrolled (in France, USA and Spain) 26 patients with Alport syndrome at high risk of a rapid loss of kidney function despite stable multiple SoC drugs, including ...

Heart failure patients treated with finerenone (Kerendia; Bayer AG) are more likely to have an early decline in kidney function than those treated with placebo, but the decline should not be construed ...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (eg, dapagliflozin) are understudied in kidney transplant recipients. A trial attempted to fill this knowledge gap.