Adopting a kidney-friendly diet like the DASH or Mediterranean diet and managing sodium, potassium, phosphorus, and protein intake may help improve GFR by reducing kidney strain. Maintaining heart ...

Your kidneys are your body’s main filtration system. They remove waste products from your blood and excrete them via your urine. Glomeruli are the small filters inside your kidneys. If your kidneys ...

What Is a Creatinine Test? A creatinine test, also called a serum creatinine test, measures how well your kidneys are working. Creatinine is a waste product from the normal breakdown of muscle tissue.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Race may have little influence in determining an accurate eGFR when assessing patients for kidney disease, ...

Credit: Shutterstock Accurate assessment of glomerular filtration rate in patients with cancer is crucial to determine drug eligibility and dosing, while balancing the risks for undertreatment and ...

A recent study found that patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) had a poor prognosis based on glomerular filtration rate (GFR), ankle-brachial index (ABI), and high systolic blood pressure in a ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Acetazolamide was associated with reduced measured GFR ...

A recent Lancet report has indicted that 10% of the world population suffers from some form of kidney disease.(1 ) . The simplest tool to measure and track kidney function is by GFR calculation using ...

Dear Dr. Roach: Each year when I receive results from my yearly bloodwork I notice that my GFR score keeps going down. This year is the first year that my score dropped below 60, with a score of 57. I ...

Malnutrition is common among patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), which could affect creatinine-based calculation of glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Beringer and colleagues have investigated whether ...

Fenofibrate and its active metabolite, fenofibric acid, are primarily excreted by the kidneys. It is nondialysable, and studies in patients with moderate chronic kidney disease (GFR <50 ml/min/1.73 m ...