New normative data and a web-based kidney calculator help doctors detect kidney disease early by comparing eGFR scores to age ...

Subtle abnormalities in kidney function – even within the range considered normal – may help identify people at risk of ...

A GFR of over 90 is considered normal. But having a GFR of 60 or above may also be considered within the normal range if you do not have other signs of kidney disease. Diabetes is a long-term (chronic ...

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 ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have discovered that even slight abnormalities in kidney function—within the normal ...

Kidney disease is a severe condition in which your kidneys slowly start to fail. This leads to a build-up of harmful elements in your blood that would otherwise be filtered out through your kidneys.

Subtle abnormalities in kidney function—even within the range considered normal—may help identify people at risk of ...

A major global study suggests that a hidden mismatch between two common blood tests could quietly signal serious trouble ...

Kidney failure is a lifelong burden in hundreds of thousands of people who need to be treated either by dialysis or a kidney transplant. Both procedures significantly increase the cost of healthcare ...