Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic Kidney Disease News

  • NKF Slow Gait Linked to Death in CKD Patients In patients with mild to moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD), walking less than 350 meters in 6 minutes is associated with a nearly 3-fold increased risk for mortality, compared with walking faster.
    Medscape Medical News, May 15, 2012
  • New Equation May Help Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Risk New Equation May Help Predict Chronic Kidney Disease Risk The use of a new equation proposed by the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration may more accurately categorize the risk for mortality among those with chronic kidney disease.
    Medscape Medical News, May 8, 2012
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Chronic Kidney Disease Perspectives

  • Will Industry Fund Large Dialysis Trials? Will Industry Fund Large Dialysis Trials?   Jeffrey Berns asks where the money will come from for funding large multicenter randomized trials on dialysis and suggests that it might come from industry.
    Medscape Nephrology, May 16, 2012
  • Resistant Hypertension and CKD: Chicken and Egg Resistant Hypertension and CKD: Chicken and Egg Lynda Szczech, MD, assessed a study that found greater rates of death and new-onset chronic kidney disease in patients with resistant hypertension. The question is, what's the relationship?
    Medscape Nephrology, May 1, 2012
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