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

Eating the wrong foods can increase your risk, while filling your diet with nutrient-rich foods can safeguard your kidney health ... nutrient-dense vegetable is low in both potassium and sodium ...

A team has devised a more accurate way of measuring an indicator of kidney function known as glomerular filtration rate (GFR) by taking aging into account.

Researchers found that correcting the diets in offspring had no impact, and subsequent generations continued to be born with low nephron counts, the vital filtration units that help kidneys remove ...

Studies in 'healthy' Indians have found a lower range of normal glomerular filtration rates ... the result of a vegetarian diet) and suggest that the National Kidney Foundation GFR threshold ...

A worldwide movement is underway to oblige laboratories to provide an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR ... de facto screening for chronic kidney disease (CKD), and the validity of ...