A systematic review found that alternative approaches to calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) were worth looking into to properly account for diversity in populations. A review ...

A race-free revision of the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation for calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), introduced in September 2021, has rapidly ...

New evidence further confirms that use of the race coefficient when calculating estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in Black patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) leads to systematic ...

Because race is a social construct, not a physical characteristic, the race coefficient may not be needed to calculate eGFR. Removing the race coefficient could increase the number of black ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nair and colleagues evaluated 385,087 adult candidates waitlisted for kidney transplantation between Jan. 1, ...

Evaluation of Cockcroft-Gault (CG) and abbreviated modified diet in renal disease (MDRD) formulae in dosing of cancer drugs other than carboplatin No significant financial relationships to disclose.

Dose selection is a significant challenge in pediatric drug development; commonly used renal function equations can overestimate glomerular filtration rates and result in inaccurate predictions of ...

Dr. Jenna Henderson, ND Subheadline  A clinical overview of kidney function changes with aging, common diagnostic pitfalls, ...