Though highly effective, medications for the prevention of chronic kidney disease progression are under-utilized, emphasizing the need for better use of prognostic tools.

A worldwide movement is underway to oblige laboratories to provide an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) whenever serum creatinine concentration is measured at the request of a physician.

Body-weight cycling, sometimes referred to as yo-yo dieting, may be harmful to the kidneys for people with type 1 diabetes, ...

Figure 3: Age-adjusted risks of death, cardiovascular events, and hospitalization in relation to estimated glomerular filtration rate in 1,120,295 participants enrolled in a major health ...

Body-weight cycling (also known as yo-yo dieting) has been shown to significantly increase the risk of kidney disease in ...

Many older people develop chronic kidney disease and are also likely to be on cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins.

Chronic kidney disease has been linked to yo-yo dieting (also known as body-weight cycling) in the general population, which ...

Yo-yo dieting has significantly increased the risk of kidney disease in those with type 1 diabetes, regardless of body mass index and other traditional risk factors, according to a new study published ...

Statins, a class of cholesterol-lowering drugs, have no effect on kidney function, a research team led by the University of ...

Among Black patients with suppressed HIV, estimated glomerular filtration rate by cystatin C appears to provide clinically useful information regardless of ART regimen.

The FDA has approved Ozempic (semaglutide) to reduce the risk of kidney disease worsening and cardiovascular death in those with T2D and CKD.