I recently took a call from a new practitioner. She had an 85-year-old diabetic, non-insulin-dependent female with a glomerular filtration rate (GFR) of 45 mL/min/1.73 m 2. The practitioner asked if ...

Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) quantifies the volume of plasma filtered by the renal glomeruli per unit time and is widely regarded as the most reliable indicator of kidney function. Traditional ...

A team has devised a more accurate way of measuring an indicator of kidney function known as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by taking aging into account. Annual health checkups regularly include ...

A study of more than 82,000 older adults receiving outpatient measurements of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) found that measuring eGFR based on creatinine and cystatin C levels ...

Teenagers with type 1 diabetes now have the first randomized trial evidence that an SGLT2 inhibitor can protect their kidneys ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A fully automated artificial intelligence approach predicted post-nephrectomy glomerular ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Older adults may have hyperfiltration with normal glomerular filtration rate calculation. GFR calculation may be ...

Annual health checkups regularly include urine tests that serve several purposes, including checking for symptoms of kidney disease. The presence of albumin in the urine is one indicator, as is ...