Malnutrition is common among patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), which could affect creatinine-based calculation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Beringer and colleagues have investigated whether ...

Barriers to donation may explain why living donor kidney transplantation has been declining. If direct measurements of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) cannot be obtained, the CKD-EPI and FAS ...

The study results were released as nephrologists and others are awaiting the findings of a joint task force of 2 national kidney organizations looking at alternative approaches to estimating ...

HOUSTON -- Two commonly used kidney function tests had a large degree of disagreement and were linked with serious health outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a ...

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 ...

In an interview with Renal & Urology News, Christine A. White, MD, MSc, of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, who was not involved in the study, said the research by Dr Shafi and ...

1 Laboratory for Biometry and Exercise Nutrition, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium 2 Laboratory of Medical Chemistry, University Erasmus Academic Hospital, Free University of Brussels, ...