Whether to measure Lp(a), a lipoprotein associated with increased cardiovascular risk, and how to use that information in risk assessment is a hot topic in cardiovascular medicine. The American Heart ...

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We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. A new risk equation called The Kidney Disease Risk ...

Use of cystatin C and SGLT2 inhibitors were highlighted in the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization's updated clinical practice guideline. In a synopsis of the recently ...

The recently introduced and endorsed equation for estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) that foregoes adjustment for self-identified Black individuals worked as well as the race-adjusted version ...

The Kidney Cancer Risk Equation for predicting post-nephrectomy ESKD builds on the ubiquitous Kidney Failure Risk Equation and is easy to use, according to investigators. Investigators have created a ...

In three studies, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Advances and the American Journal of Cardiology, researchers found that, while the PREVENT ...

This limitation of the kidney failure risk equation may affect advanced care planning for the oldest patients with advanced CKD. The widely used Kidney Failure Risk Equation (KFRE) overestimates the ...

PITTSBURGH – If national guidelines are revised to incorporate a new risk equation, about 40% fewer people could meet criteria for cholesterol-lowering statins to prevent heart disease, according to a ...

The researchers found that the mean estimated 10-year risk for heart failure was 3.7%; overall, 15.0 million adults were classified as having intermediate or high (elevated) risk for heart failure.