Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An interim report by a National Kidney Foundation-American Society of Nephrology task force outlines challenges ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Race may have little influence in determining an accurate eGFR when assessing patients for kidney disease, ...

A team of researchers led by the National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBIOHN) and Osaka University established a new method to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR), ...

A person's estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), a mainstay for assessing renal function and health, can often substantially differ from that person's actual, directly measured GFR (mGFR), a ...

“There are many ways to measure GFR using either renal or plasma clearance of a variety of exogenous markers with different sampling strategies,” she said. Few comparative studies have evaluated ...

A movement sparked by medical students is pushing to eliminate the use of race to estimate kidney function, saying it reinforces racist thinking.... As the U.S. grapples with the effects of systemic ...

NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases A formula used to measure kidney function in children with chronic kidney disease has been revised to make it more precise, ...

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Valuable in Measuring Kidney Function in Gastric Cancer Patients Researchers from Dokkyo Medical University in Japan found that estimated glomerular filtration ...

A team of researchers has established a new method to measure glomerular filtration rate (GFR), a primary kidney function, by calculating the clearance of D-serine. A team of researchers led by the ...