The National Kidney Foundation published a consensus document that advocates transition to race-free eGFR equations in health ...

Annual health checkups regularly include urine tests that serve several purposes, including checking for symptoms of kidney disease.

Annual health checkups regularly include urine tests that serve several purposes, including checking for symptoms of kidney ...

Annual health checkups regularly include urine tests that serve several purposes, including checking for symptoms of kidney ...

New formula for glomerular filtration rate (GFR) takes age into consideration. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news coverage of this paper ...

Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a new method to assess GFR (glomerular filtration rate) in older ...

One of the early products of the Chronic Kidney Disease in Children (CKiD) study has been an updated equation for estimating GFR in children on the basis of demographic and laboratory parameters.

A coefficient for race was introduced into eGFR equations 2 in 1999 — and included in a 2009 equation 3 — to account for average differences in how creatinine levels relate to kidney function ...