Part of Nature Outlook: Medical diagnostics Until 2020, US clinicians routinely interpreted diagnostic tests that estimate kidney function using equations that incorporated race — specifically ...

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A cohort study identified a link between COVID-19 and a faster decline in kidney function, especially following ...

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An Alabama woman underwent a transplant procedure to get a new kidney from a gene-edited pig. Last month, a woman became the third living person to receive a pig kidney. Now, her kidney function is ...

Kidney Care UK figures show that of the 112,150 people who have completed its assessment tool, 49.7 have been identified as being at higher risk.

A kidney function test regularly is also recommended for patients. People usually reduce their water intake in the winter months, because they feel less thirsty. This is a big contributor to ...

Changes in urine colour, burning sensation during urination, and foaming while urinating are signs of many diseases and ...

There is an independent dose-response relationship between the number of chronic conditions and absolute and relative declines in estimated glomerular filtration rate.

But the physician I saw focused on a laboratory test that came back with an unexpected and grim diagnosis: advanced kidney disease ... in this region was a function of genetic adaptation to ...